Notes on Contributors Enrique Ball<>n (born 1940) is Director of the Centro de Investigaci6n en Infor­ matica Aplicada a las Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Lirna), President of the Aso­ ciaci6n Peruana de Semi6tica, and Associate Professor of Semiotic and General Linguistics at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima and the Universidad Cat6lica deI Peru, and Research Member of the Groupe de Recherches Semio-Linguistiques of the EHESS of the CNRS of Paris. In addition to several articles on semiotics, his publications include Vallejo como paradigma (Un caso especial de escritura) (1974); Cesar Vallejo: Ohra Poetica Completa (1979); Cesar Vallejo: Teatro Completo (1979); and Poeticay PoHtica en la Escritura de Cesar Vallejo (1981). Gianfranco Bettetini (born 1933) is Full Professor of Theory and Technique of Social Communications at the Universita Cattolica, in Milan. He is also a Member of the Consiglio Scientifico of the Istituto Agostino Gemelli and General Secretary of the Associazione Internazionale di Studi Semiotici (lASS). At the same time, he has been involved in the creation of screenplays, and TV and film direction. Among his many publications on audio-visual semiotics and general problems of semiotic practice in mass communications are: Il segno, dalla regia fino al cinema (Milan, 1962); La regia televisiva (1965); Cinema: lingua e scrittura (1968); L'indice del realismo (1972); Produzione del senso e messa in scena (1975); Teatro e comunicazione (with Marco de Marinis) (1977); Tempo del senso (1979); and Scritture di massa (1980). Karin Boklund-Lagopoulou (born 1939) has published articles on medieval literature (1977) and recently edited Semiotics and Society (1980, in Greek), a collection of papers mainly by Greek semioticians. Her present research interests center around the articulation of semiotic texts with social structure and the development of a Marxist semiotic analysis. Paul Bouissac (born 1934) is a Professor in the Department of French at Victoria College, University of Toronto. In addition to serving as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Semiotic Studies and the Semiotic Society of America, and of the Editorial Board of Ars Semiotica and the Encydopedic 613 614 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Dictionary oJ Semiotics, he has been the editor-in-chief of RS/ SI, Recherehes Semiotiques/ Semiotic Inquiry since 1980. Among his many publications on non-verbal communi­ cation and the semiotics of the performing arts, which include numerous articles, are: La mesure des gestes: Protegomenes ii une semiotique gestuelle (1973), Circus and Culture (1976) and Iconicity: Essays on the Nature oJ Culture (ed. with Roland Posner, 1985). Roque Carri6n-Wam (born 1942) is a Full Professor at the University of Car­ abobo, in Valencia, Venezuela, where he also carries out research in the Latin Amer­ ican Office of Juridical and Social Research (O.L.I.].S.). He is in charge of the course and seminar curriculum as weil as the publications of the O.L.I.].S. for Latin America in the fields of methodology and philosophy of law, juridical semiotics, philosophy and his tory of ideas, and social sciences. He has carried out advanced research on the philosophy of law and is editor of Investigaciones Semioticas and the Cuadernos de Semiotica Juridica. Francesco Casetti (born 1947) teaches History and Criticism of the Cinema at the Catholic University in Milan. He is also Vice-President of the Associazione Ital­ iana di Studi Semiotici. His research is concerned primarily with problems of film and visual semiotics, working on a model inspired by text grammars. He has published several essays and s tudies as weil as three books: Bernardo Bertolucci (1975); Semiotica (1977); and Teoria del cinema dal dopoguerra a oggi (1978). He also belongs to the editorial staff of Comunicazioni Sociali and Ikon. Anne Freadman is a Lecturer in the French Department of the University of Queensland. She has written articles on literary semiotics and on theoretic issues arising from the work of Benveniste, Morris, Peirce, and Saussure. She is currently working on a book on fictions of the enonciation in women's writing, a Ph.D. thesis on Peirce, and (with Meaghan Morris) a book entitled Senders and Receivers. Andres Gallardo (born 1941) obtained his Ph.D. from the State University of N ew York at Buffalo in 1980, with a thesis on "The Standardization of American English." He is an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Concepcion in Chile. His publications reftect a culture-oriented approach to grammar and socio­ linguistics. His interest in semiotics sterns from his interest in language, but slowly has been acquiring an identity of its own, which, by now has manifested itself in its direction of literature, and chiefty fiction. Among Gallardo's many publications are: "Hacia una teoria dei idioma estandar," R.L.A. (Concepcion) no. 16 (1973); "Vision dellexico en la 'Oda' al diccionario de Pablo Neruda," R.L.A. no. 17 (1979); "Dic­ tionaries and the Standardization Process," in Ladislav Zgusta, ed., Theory and Method in Lexicography (1980); "Gramatica de los nombres de colores," R.L.A. no. 19 (1980); "Planificacion lingüistica y ejemplaridad literaria. Gabriela Mistral y la cul tura del idioma," R.L.A. no. 21 (1983); Historia de la literatura y otros cuentos (short stories) (1982); Cdtedras paralelas (unpublished noveI). Sanda Golopentia-Eretescu (born 1940) is Assistant Professor in the Depart­ ment of French Studies at Brown University. She was a member of the Board of the Romanian Group for Semiotics from 1976 to 1979, Vice President of the Linguistic Society of Romania (1978-79), and member of the Board of the International Asso­ ciation for Semiotic Studies (1979-1985). Her research interests include linguistics, especially syntax and semantics; folklore and poetics; general and descriptive semiot­ ics; and currently pragmatics, particularly speech-act theories. She has wri tten and edited over 100 articles and books on these subjects. So me of her publications in NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 615 English are: The Romanian-English Contrastive Anafysis Project: Reports and Studies (ed. with T. Slama-Cazacu and D. Chitoran, 1971); The Transformational Syntax of Romanian (1972); and Current Trends in Romanian Linguistics (ed. with Alexandru Rosetti, 1978). Cristina Gonzalez (born 1951) is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Purdue University. Her principal research interests are Medieval Spanish literature and semiotic criticism. Among her articles on semiotic topics are: "Wilkins y Funes: EI Lenguaje Imposible," Insula 383 (1978) and "Bibliografia Comentada de la Critica Semio16gica Espanola," Dispositio, 2/5-6 (1977). Anne HenauIt was graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure and is now Professor at the University of Paris, after having taught at a number of foreign universities. In 1978 she founded the Bulletin du Groupe de Recherches Semio-Linguistiques de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes de Paris. She has published Les enjeux de la semiotique (1979) and Narratologie semiotique generale (1982). Regina Jimenez-Ottalengo (born 1938) is a Research Associate at the Institute of Social Research of the National University of Mexico. Her area of interest is the sociology of communication, and her most recent publications deal with the problem of semiology and its role in the analysis of communication. Her publications on this topic include "Reflections about Semiology; the Problem of the Sign and Reality" (in Readings on Semiology, 1980) and "The Complexity of Signs from the Sociological Point of View," Dispositio 4/10 (1979). Two books, Sciences 01 the Human as Sciences 01 Meaning and Social Realily, its Projection and Signalization, are in press. Jorgen Dines Johansen is Professor of General and Comparative Literature at Odense University and member of the Board of the International Association of Comparative Literature. In addition to his many scientific articles on various aspects of literature and literary semiotics he has published: Gm fortolkningssituationen (1972), Novelle og kontekst (with S0ren Baggesen, 1972), Communication et sujet (ed. with Sven E. Larsen and Morten Nojgaard, Degris 8, 1980), Jürgen Habermas: Teorier om samfond og sprog (ed. with J. Glebe-Moller, 1981), and Hvalerne venter. Studier i Klaus Rifbjergs forfatterskab (1981). He is currently finis hing a book on the implications of Peirce's semiotics for the study of literature. Roberta Kevelson holds the first Ph.D. in Semiotics in the Uni ted States, from Brown University, and is currently Professor at Pennsylvania State University. She has published extensivelyon Peirce's contributions to modern semiotic theory and method and has introduced the concept of legal semiotics and cultures in several publications. Among her main publications are: Inlaws/Gutlaws: Toward a Semiotics 01 Intersystemic Communication (1977) and The Inverted Pyramid (1977). She is presently preparing three books; one is on Charles S. Peirce's methodology and semiotics, the second is on legal semiotics, and the third is an introduction to semiotic methodology. A.-Ph. Lagopoulos (born 1939) is Professor of Urban Planning at the School of Engineering of the U niversity of Thessaloniki. His publications in semiotics include Structural Urbanism (1973, in Greek), and articles on the semiotic production and conception of settlement space in Semiotica, Communications, and elsewhere (1975, 1977, 1978). Annemarie Lange-Seidl is Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics