1998

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. Peterburg’s 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. Brodsky’s 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
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