Table of contents

Peeter Torop - Semiotics in Tartu. (9-19)

Thomas A. Sebeok - The Estonian connection. (20-41)

General semiotics

Marcel Danesi - The «dimensionality principle» and semiotic analysis. (42-60)

Semiotics of culture

Juri Lotman - Witchhunts: semiotics of fear. (61-82)

Göran Sonesson - The concept of text in cultural semiotics. (83-114)

Eero Tarasti - On post-colonial semiotics. (115-135)

Peeter Torop - The limits of translation: the socio-semiotic aspect of translation semiotics. (136-150)

Jelena Grigorjeva - St. Peterburgs time and space from the micromythological viewpoint. (151-185)

Galina Ponomarjova - Border and the barbed wire. (186-200)

Semiotics of language and literature

Mihhail Lotman - On systems of versification (mostly in Russian and Estonian poetry). (201-255)

Ülle Pärli - Linguistic terms as tropes in J. Brodskys poetry. (256-273)

Jörgen Dines Johansen - A semiotic mapping of the study of literature. (274-298)

Susanna Witt - Master and Margarita a theatrical novel? (299-318)

Michail Sheljakin - On the signific function of the order of meaningful units in language: On semiotics of first position. (319-331)

Eco- and sociosemiotics

Winfried Nöth - Ecosemiotics. (332-343)

Kalevi Kull - Semiotic ecology: different natures in the semiosphere. (344-371)

Jeff Bernard - Conceptions of life and man basics of «social communications» (as exemplified by the «charter on the (re)presentation of disabled people in the media»). (372-391)

Anti Randviir - Sign as an object of social semiotics: evolution of cartographic semiosis. (392-416)

Book Reviews

Sergey V. Chebanov - Totality of semiosphere. Review: Jesper Hoffmeyer, Signs of Meaning in the Universe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. (417-424)

Wolfgang Drechsler - The philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Review: The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The Library of Living Philosophers, vol. XXIV. Lewis Edwin Hahn, ed. Chicago and La Salle, IL: Open Court, 1997. (425-436)

Sign Systems Studies. Trudõ po znakovõm sistemam. Töid märgisüsteemide alalt

Sign Systems Studies. Trudõ po znakovõm sistemam. Töid märgisüsteemide alalt

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