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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Concerning Gaia-Semiosic Production of/in/by/for Our Planet -- Editing the Text of a Disease: Semiotic and Ethical Aspects of Therapeutic Genetic Engineering -- The Brain's Models and Communication -- Semiotics and Biosemiotics: Are Sign-Science and Life-Science Coextensive? -- Modeling Life: A Note on the Semiotics of Emergence and Computation in Artificial and Natural Living Systems -- Some Semiotic Aspects of the Psycho-Physical Relation: The Endo-Exosemiotic Boundary -- Organization of Biosystems: A Semiotic Approach -- Nature Semiotics: The Icons of Nature -- Ecogenesis and Echogenesis: Some Problems for Biosemiotics -- Phytosemiotics Revisited -- Evolution and Semiotics -- On the Specificity of Musculoskeletal Symptoms: A Biosemiotic Excursion -- As Signs Grow, So Life Goes -- The Neglect of Subjective Medical Data and the Cultural Construction of Pain Disease-A Cross-Cultural Study -- On Abductions from the X-Ray Screen: The Semiotic Potential of Radiology Illustrated by Two False Suspicions -- Species, Signs, and Intentionality -- 'Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?': The Biosemiotic Self -- Biosemiotics: A Functional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of the Sense of Information -- Half of the Living World Was Unable to Communicate for about One Billion Years -- The Social Construction of Alzheimer's Disease -- Biosemiotics, Ethnographically Speaking -- Categorical Perception as a General Prerequisite to the Formation of Signs? On the Biological Range of a Deep Semiotic Problem in Hjelmslev's as Well as Peirce's Semiotics -- Varieties of Semiosis -- On the Emergence of Chemical Languages -- Index -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Abbreviation -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Historical Survey -- Chapter 2. The Intentional Thesis -- Chapter 3. Some Pragmatist Approaches -- Chapter 4. The Argument From Real Connection -- Chapter 5. The Argument From Convention -- Chapter 6. The Argument From Non-existent Objects -- Chapter 7. Conclusion: The Distinction Reassessed -- Bibliography

Frontmatter -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One. The Regulatory Function Of Speech -- I. Speech As Instruction -- Part Two. Clinical Implications Of Semiotic Theory -- II. Crystallized Conflict: Semiotic Aspects Of Neurosis And Science -- III. Psychoanalysis And The Twentieth-Century Revolution In Communication -- IV. Momentary Deity And Personal Myth -- Part Three. On The Theory Of Information-Novelty -- V. Coping With Novelty -- VI. Integration, Discipline, And The Concept Of Shape -- VII. The Challenge Of Innovation -- Part Four. Psychosocial Implications Of Semiotic Theory -- VIII. Sociatry: Social Psychiatry And The Physician's Calling -- IX. The Notion Of Structure In Communication And Community -- X. Morality And Communicational Process -- Part Five. Language, Mentation, And Reality -- XI. Language: Medium Or Operator? -- XII. Why The Mind Is Not In The Head -- XIII. Paradoxes Of Consonance: A Structural View -- Part Six. Appendix: Papers Of Historical Interest -- XIV. The Relationship Of Certain Aspects Of Personality Development To Language Forms -- XV. Avoidance Of The Particular As A Defense Mechanism -- XVI. Language And Psychotherapy

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I. Ideology and literary representation -- Chapter II. Marxism and literary representation -- Chapter III. Ideological system and narrative process -- Chapter IV. Narrative and realist representation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- The Book of Jonah: A paradigm of the "hermeneutics of strangeness" -- Homer's portrayal of women: A discussion of Homeric narrative from an oralist point of view -- Orality, literacy, and the "readership" of the early Greek novel -- Memory, fictionality, and the issue of authority: Author-function and narrative performance in Beowulf, Chretien and Malory -- The marvellous North and authorial presence in the Icelandic fornaldarsaga -- Women and Old Norse narrative -- Repainting the lion: Chaucer's profeminist narratives -- The mimesis of change: Gascoigne's Aduentures of Master F.J. (1573) -- Archetextual palimpsests: Compositional structure and narrative self-awareness in L'Astrée and other French baroque novels -- Pragmatism and narratology: The case of Paradise Lost -- "That prerogative over human": Paradise Lost and the telling of divine history -- The beginnings of the epistolary novel in England -- Not being a historian: Women telling tales in restoration and eighteenth-century England -- "Worn by the friction of time": Oral tradition and the generation of the balladic narrative mode -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Graphie conventions -- 0. Introduction: Knots in a red thread -- 1. Encyclopedic outline of a cultural unit: «Aspirin» -- 2. The semiotic specificity of the pharmacologically nonspecific: the placebo problem -- 3. De attractionibus electivis: the modelling of /similarity/ in the history of pharmacy and chemistry -- 4. Reflections on pharmaceutical esthetics -- 5. Conclusion: Pharmacomorphism of the doctorpatient relationship and liturgy of the physic -- Notes -- References -- Index

This work contains 281 essays and 7 plenary papers from among 700 semiotists who convened at the University of Berkeley, in 1994.

Frontmatter -- TABLE DES MATIÈRES -- REMERCIEMENTS -- ABRÉVIATIONS ET SIGNES USUELS -- INTRODUCTION -- I. ANALYSE DE TEXTES -- II. STRUCTURES DU CONTENU EN PRÉSENCE -- III. LE NARRATEUR (ET LE LECTEUR) -- IV. LOGIQUE ET RÉCIT -- V. STYLISTIQUE ET RÉCIT -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- AVERTISSEMENT -- TABLE -- 1. THÉORIE DU TEXTE: OBJET, PROJET, CLAUSES -- 2. POSITION DE NARRATION -- 3. FONCTIONNEMENT DE NARRATION -- 4. PRODUCTION DE NARRATION -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- INDEX -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- TABLE DES MATIÈRES -- I. Introduction -- II. Aspects généraux structuraux du mythe dans le Rgveda -- III. La sémiologie de l'univers védique (loka -- IV. L'ASPECT RITUEL DE LA COSMOGONIE VÉDIQUE -- V. LA LOGIQUE ÉQUATIONNELLE DU MYTHE VÉDIQUE EN ACTION -- VI. Quelques éléments de l'univers védique en voie de réintégration: le mythe de référence transformé -- VII. Une dernière transformation du mythe de référence: le monde védique vu en son intégrité -- VIII. Pour un bilan -- BIBLIOGRAPHIE -- INDEX LOCORUM -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- VORWORT -- INHALT -- 1. Probleme der Methodologie in der Literaturwissenschaft -- 2. Zur Frage der Einfachen Form und des Sprichworts - Forschungslage und methodologische Voraussetzungen -- 3. Die Tiefenstruktur und einige allgemeine grammatische Bestimmungen der Sprichwörter -- 4. Exkurs über semantische, pragmatische und stilistische Fragen -- 5. Rhetorische Transformationen -- 6. Der poetische Kode -- Bibliographie -- Liste der im Text angegebenen Regeln -- Namenregister -- Sachregister

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Glossing Conventions -- CHAPTER 1: BACKGROUND -- CHAPTER 2: NONMANUAL SIGNALS -- CHAPTER 3: WORD ORDER -- CHAPTER 4: SUBORDINATION -- CHAPTER 5: RESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES -- References -- Appendix A: Index of the Major Nonmanual Signs -- Appendix B: "The King's Pie Contest" -- Index to Signs

Frontmatter -- Part Two. L-Z -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z -- Index