Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Volume 1 -- I. Plenary Addresses -- Joining different worlds; symbols and the quest for unity -- From the fantasia through metaphor to knowledge: A Vichian perspective of conceptualization -- Some remarks on perfect languages -- Fundamentals of diachronic linguistics: Semiotic implications -- "Symbols grow" II -- Sémiotique et herméneutique: Vers une complémentarité possible -- Global semiotics -- II. Semiotics Around the World -- Semiotics in Romania: Political implications -- Sémiotique au Chili d'aujourd'hui: histoire, ruptures et champ théorique -- Semiotics in Spain -- The semiosis of cognition -- Sémiotiques belges -- Semiotics in Germany -- Semiotics in Greece -- Semiotics in Switzerland -- Semiotics in the Nordic countries -- Ill. Linguistics -- Linguistics and the language of schizophrenics -- Is nature a language? J. W. Goethe on scientific knowledge -- The semiotics of catastrophe in linguistic change -- Johann Gottfried Herder's conception of the origin of language -- The main statements of theories as determined by a semiotic method -- Emotion families -- The relationship between texts and their location -- Some consonant strategies in spoken discourse -- Les supports lexico-syntaxiques du non-fini en français et en arabe -- Zero-derivation or syntagmatic derivation -- La figuralité: Son actualité en linguistique et en sémiotique -- Perception of proverbs and familiarity with them. Figurativeness as one of the most powerful markers of proverbiality -- Sauron's Newspeak: Black Speech, Quenya, and the nature of mind -- The possible worlds of the imaginary -- Digital and nondigital information in genetic language -- Creating signs, building bridges -- Lexical and phonetic semiotic in lyrics: Agnes Miegel's Herbst -- Expression as expression - as -- Two kinds of semantics: Six intersemiotic theses -- Situational effects on the quantification of frequency words -- Cooperative organization of Japanese conversation -- Some comments on semiotics of graphic communication -- Cognitive metaphor and critical rhetoric -- Cross-cultural pragmatics in Western academic discursive practice -- Textsemantics: A bridge between linguistics and literary theory -- The social crystallization of language. Coercive traits of the social characterization in a Saussurean textus receptus tradition -- IV. Culture -- Material culture in the mirror of archival sources -- Sacrality, myth, objects: Techniques of fabrication and semiotical, anthropological interpretation of carpets and jewels from Pakistan -- American "Comics": A semiolinguistic analysis -- Waco Wackos! The emergence of American social consciousness in the jokes told surrounding the events at Waco, Texas -- For a transcultural theory of iconic creation -- "Heimat" and "mi tierra". Towards a semiotic theory of local identities from an intercultural perspective -- Verbal and visual intersemiosis in aesthetical experiments—the case of contemporary Brazilian culture -- The meaning of life: Extensional semantics in the game go -- On cultural stereotypes: A Peircean view -- African-American aesthetic of dress: Subcultural meaning and significance -- Humour and verisimilitude -- The sign behind the gate -- Noname Culture -- Destin et histoire -- Fashion and body images in youth cultures. The semiotics of Skins, Punks, New Wave and the Preppie -- Arthur Bispo do Rosario: The vertigo art -- The skin of time — a semiotic approach to death -- Fetishes, props, and prostheses-On the ecology of material objects -- Semiotic ethnocriticism: Tawada's Das Fremde aus der Dose -- Verbal means as signs of human needs in the light of an axiosemiotic theory of culture -- "Glory of Glories . . . She Wears a Hat" Dress, the immigrant and social equality in America -- A triple semiosis for the representation of stone tools in archaeology -- V. Literature: Theory, Text, Narrative, Poetics -- The reflected voices: Calvino's "If on a winter's night a travelerweiterlesen