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