Kogumikus on toodud Soomes 1987. a. peetud Tartu-Moskva semiootikakooli konverentsi ettekanded.
Sisu:
- Historical influences
I. Chernov. Historical survey of Tartu-Moscow semiotic school - M. Hoppal. Ethnosemiotics and semiotics of culture
- B.Oguibenine. On the world tree symbolism: The sources of an analytical pattern
- V. Voigt. Between eastern and western semiotics
- General concepts
- A. Piatigorsky. Three origins of religious symbolism
- T. Sebeok. In what sense is language a «primary modelling system»?
- A. Shukman. Towards a poetics of the absurd. The prose writings of Daniil Kharms
- I. Smirnov. Totemismus und genretheorie
- Lotmanian studies
- Greetings to the symposium
- H. Broms. Autocommunication - a way to induce visions to the organization
- J. Lotman. Zur Rolle der zufälligen Faktoren in literarischer Evolution
- R. Posner. Semiotics vs. anthropology. Alternatives in the explication of «culture»
- R. Posner. Zur Entwicklung der Semiotik
- P.-M. Toivonen. J. Lotman's concept of poetic language and poetic text. The example of Baudelaire's spleen II
- M. Yamaguchi. «Center» and «periphery» in Japanese culture – in light of Tartu semiotics
- Bakhtinian studies
- H. Broms. Unusual forms of commercial culture
- D. Danow. Bakhtin and Lotman: novel and culture
- H. Majava. On Bakhtin's psychoanalytic views
- H. Riikonen. Menippean satire: some Bakhtinian aspects
