Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xiii
5. PART ONE. Lotman’s Cultural Semiotic Theory
6. 1. Lotman’s Contributions to the Semiotics of Culture 3
7. 2. The Structure of Cultural Semiotic Systems 13
8. 3. Introduction to the Semiosphere 26
9. 4. Characteristics and Origins of the Semiosphere 42
10. PART TWO. The Construction of Semiotic Space in Verbal Texts
11. 5. Lotman, Bulgakov, and Zamyatin 73
12. 6. Bulgakov and Zamyatin 93
13. 7. Extending Lotmanian Theory 112
14. PART THREE. Semiotic Theory as a Cognitive Science
15. 8. Visual and Auditory Signs in Human Language: Perception and Imagery 133
16. 9. The Language of Memory in the Memory of Language 147
17. Notes 161
18. References 179
19. Index 193