Gérard Deledalle & Michel Balat 
Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes [PDF ebook] 
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 xp Wa’ -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