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
Frontmatter -- 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 Melodrama
