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Architecture as Identity, I: The Essence of Architecture 1 Chris Abel
Theory and Practice at the Crossroads— A Peircean Perspective on Political Signs 13 Maryann Ayim
System and Observer in Semiotic Modeling: An Essay on Semiotic Realism 27 William L. Benzon
Architectural Criticism as a Means to Identify Socially Shared Values: The Case of the East Building of the National Gallery 37 Juan Pablo Bonta
Buildings as Symbols of Political Ideology 45 Geoffrey Broadbent
Peirce's Anticipation of Game Theoretic Logic and Semantics 55 Jarrett Brock
Mind, Object, Object, Artifact II . 65 Richard Bunt
The Reference Relation in Music 75 Robert Cantrick
SI MUOVE, MA NON TROPO: An Inquiry into the Non-metaphorical Status of Idioms and Phrases 89 Jean-Claude Choul
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Symbolic Use of Weaving Designs: A Case Study 99 Helen Peeler Clements
Antecedents to Peirce's Notion of Iconic Signs 109 John N. Deely
On Discovering the Semiotic Organization of the Lexicon: State of Health as a Multifaceted Domain . 121 Paul B. Dominick
Notes on Text and Performance in the Theatre of Dario Fo 131 Vittorio Felaco
The Structure of Metaphor 143 J. Norris Frederick
Forgotten Pioneers of Soviet Semiotics 155 Erika Freiberger-Sheikholeslami
On Discovering the Semiotic Organization of Experience: The Public Meanings and Private Meanings of Objects 165 Jeffrey Mark Golliher
One Artist's Neurosis on Signing 171 Irene Hashimoto
Explaining Style Growth and Change: A Richer Semiotic Model 185 Robert S. Hatten
The Rock and Roll Concert: A Semiotic Analysis 195 Dan Hays
Disemia 205 Michael Herzfeld
Naturalness Vs. Arbitrariness in the Domain of Color 217 Nancy P. Hickerson
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Modes of Medical Instruction: A Semiotic Comparison of Textbooks of Medicine and Popular Home Medical Books 227 Joan Yess Kahn
Peirce's Existential Graphs as the Basis for An Introduction to Logic: Semiosis in the Logic Classroom 231 Kenneth Laine Ketner
Peirce as Catalyst in Modern Legal Science: Consequences 241 Roberta Kevelson
A Semiotic Account of Polysemy and Homonymy 255 Alexandre Kimenyi
The Semiosis of the Sequence of Signs in a Narrative 267 Andrej Kodj ak
The Impact of Speech-Act Theory and Phenomenology on Proust and Claude Simon 275 Marlies Kronegger
Semiotic Perspectives on Chinese: A Picturesque Language 281 Paul Y. Lin
Peirce and Jakobson: Towards a Struct- uralist Reconstruction of Peirce 297 James Jakob Liszka
Architecture as Representation of Nature 307 Tomas Llorens
The Measurement of Comentropy Transfer Rates 319 Richard Lo
Towards a Transcultural Semiotic 331 Joseph A. Magno X CONTENTS
The Self-Disclosure Technique for Ethno- Graphic Elicitation 339 Madeleine Mathiot
Conventions of Poetry as Iconic Signs . . . . 347 Vladimir Milicifc
Comparative Adjestives in Terms of Peirce's Phenomenological Categories 355 Sarah O'Dowd
Interprétant and Interpretation 365 Joseph Oliva
Tipping Behavior as a Semiotic Process 373 Leo Pap
The Mark VI: A New Eidometer Design Concept 383 Charls Pearson
The Role of Scientific Paradigms in Empirical semiotics 395 Charls Pearson
Interactive Nonverbal Categories: A Reappraisal and Elaboration 407 Fernando Poyatos
Reckoning with the World 417 Donald Preziosi
On the Paradigm of Experience Appropriate for Semiotics 427 Joseph Ransdell
Semiotic and Creativity 439 Cynthia C. Rostankowski
The Appearance of Appearance: Architecture, Communication and Value Systems 445 Barry Russell
What is Evidence Evidence of? 455 Peter H. Salus
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The Ironic Sign 467 Leon Satterfield
Art and Objectivity 475 Frances Williams Scott
More Than Words Can Say 485 Sarah Brey Simmons
A Reconstruction Paradigm for the Experi- mental Analysis of Semiotic Factors in Cognitive Processing 493 Gary D. Shank
Peirce and Greimas from the Viewpoint of Musical Semiotics: An Outline for Comparative Semiotics 503 Eero Tarasti
The Application of the Peircean Semiotic to Logic 513 Bruce E.R. Thompson
Symbolic Configurations and Two-Dimensional Mathematical Notation 523 W.E. Underwood
The Perception of Nonverbal Behavior in Function of Visible Access to One or Both Interactants 533 Walburga von Raffler-Engel and Steven G. McKnight
Charles Morris and Christian Norberg- Schulz: The Social Basis of Meaning in Architecture 543 William Widdowson
Toward a Semiotic Beyond Feminism 549 Brooke Williams
The Structure of Categories and the Consequences for Metaphor 561 Patrick S. Williams, Michael D. Smith, and Douglas C. Chatfield xii CONTENTS
The Poetic Function of the Stage Audience and Embedded Performance in Drama 571 Lorraine Wynne
Designing Signs that Build the Required Semantics into the Needed Syntax 577 Shea Zellweger
A Semiotic Approach to Information Value 587 Pranas Zunde
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