Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes: Proceedings of the IVth International Congress / Actes du IVe Congrès Mondial. International Association for Semiotic Studies / Association Internationale de Sémiotique. Barcelona/Perpignan, March 30-April 6, 1989

Paradoxes in the Performance of Circus Acrobatic Acts
III. Semiotics in the World/La sémiotique dans le monde
The Human Voice of Semiotics
First Part/Première partie: History of Semiotics/Histoire de la sémiotique
Session 1 Charles S. Peirce
Modem Critical Editions and the New Peirce Edition
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Peirce Papers
The Many Forms of Peirce's Manuscripts: A Guess at the Riddle
Peirce's Paradise: A Visitor's View on Research and the Peirce Edition Project
The Scope of Peirce’s Semiotics
Peirce’s Semiotic Monism
Peirce's Semiotic Triad
Peirce’s Semiosis and the Logic of Evolution
Stages in Peircian Semiosis
Peirce on Signs and Science
On Sign, Mind, and Action in Peirce
Semiotics as Exploratory: Peirce’s Art of the Possible
Peirce and Valency Grammar
Session 2 Charles Morris
Syntactics, Semantics, and Pragmatics Revisited half a Century after their Introduction by Charles W. Morris
Research in Syntactics after Morris
Research in Pragmatics after Morris
Session 3 European Semiotics/Sémiotique européenne
The Present State of Research on the Reception of the Ideologists in Europe (Spain, Italy, Germany)
Roland Barthes or the Utopia of the Individual
The Semiotic Thought of the Bakhtine Circle
Notes on the Present State of European Semiotics
The European Tradition and the Paris School
Session 4 Comparative semiotics/Sémiotiques comparées
Aristotle, Peirce and Goffman in a New Frame
Semiotics, the Modes of Judgment & the Nature of Criticism
Peirce and Aristotle on Scientific Method
Jung and Peirce: Tracings of Firstness
Ferruccio Rossi-Landi and Walter Benjamin: Social Reproduction, Ideology and Artistic Technik
The Semiotics of Peirce and of Greimas
The Generative Project of Greimas and the Interpretative Project of Eco: Confluences
Reflexions on the Associative Mechanisms used in the Transpositions of Meanings
Descartes and Kant: Two Different Conceptions of Language
The Pragmatics of Aristotle's Rhetorics: The Author in the Text
Second Part/Deuxième partie: Semiotics and Culture/Sémiotiques et culture
Session 1 Cultures and Semiotics/Cultures et sémiotiques. A. Asia/Asie
China - A Country with an Abundant Semiotic Tradition
Methodological Problems Concerning Chinese Semiotics Studies
The Structure of ‘the xpWa’ -Concept as a Semiotic Interface Characterizing Japanese Ethos
Empty Signs in the Text of Japan
Iconicity and Substance in Indian Civilization
The Face and the Mask: The Semiotics of Kathakali Dance-Drama
Session 1 Cultures and Semiotics/Cultures et semiotiques. B. Africa/Afrique
Healing by Communication: The Semiotics of Yoruba Ethnoscience
Session 1 Cultures and Semiotics Cultures et sémiotiques C. Europe
The Semiotics of Surrealism in the World of the Czech Avantgarde of the 1920s and 1930s
Marine Semiotics in the Poetry of the Canary Islands
Session 2 Cultural Semiotics Sémiotique culturelle A. Transcultural Semiotics Sémiotique transculturelle
Transnationals and the Human Sign. Modes of Signification
The Logic of Art, the Grammar of Being
Myth as Transvaluation
Semantics and the Philosophy of Culture
Semiotics as a Theory of (Sub)Culture(s) and its Material Core
Semiotics, Culture and History. The Example of France during the First Years of the Third Republic
Fiction as Science: Travel Narratives
Dada and the Destruction of Cultural Codes
Speech and Ethnoregional Ideology
Session 2 Cultural Semiotics Sémiotique culturelle B. Mass-Communication Communication de masse
Urban Economy and the Urban Image
Tropic Reality and Audiovisual Discourse
On the Axiosemiotics of Postcards
Semiotic and Mass Communication
Austrian Television and the Presentation of History: The Case of Österreich I
The Time of the Bolero: Colonialism and Patriarchy in Televised Melodramas and Publicity
Session 2 Cultural Semiotics Sémiotique culturelle C. Emancipation
Semiotics and Emancipation
The Semiotics of Emancipation
Feminism as a Sign
Emancipation - A Category of Social Justice vs. Social Demagogy
Towards a Semiotic Analysis of Incarceration, Entrapment and Creativity among Women
Conclusion. Teaching Semiotics and its Institutionalization
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