Reckoning with the world

figure, text and trace in the built environment

Donald Preziosi

1-15

"You must be joking"

a sociosemiotic analysis of "ethiopian" jokes

Bennetta Jules-Rosette

17-42

Polis, semiotics, politics

Vassilis Lambropoulos

43-51

The screenplay as a "structure that wants to be another structure"

Pier P. Pasolini

53-72

The semiology of cartomancy

the interface of visibility and textuality

Edna Aphek, Yishai Tobin

73-98

Uniform numbers

Edward G. Armstrong

99-127

When is a symbol?

a semiotic reinterpretation of freudian slips

Alan C. Harris

129-149

Walter Benjamin's "allegory"

Erika Fischer-Lichte

151-168

Handbuch der Semiotik

Thomas Sebeok

169-172

Great reckonings in little rooms

on the phenomenology of theater

Jackson Barry

173-177

Themes and texts

toward a poetics of expressiveness

Jay L. Lemke

177-181