Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- How Do Reflexive Systems Communicate? -- Sources-History-Literature: The Interrelation of the Texts -- On the Problem of Sign Typology -- Peirce's Idea of Sign and the Cartesian Cogito -- Is the Theory of Performative Utterance Worthy of Defense? -- On Semiotic Problems of Audiovisual Systems -- On Conventionality of Signs and Semiotic Simplifications -- On Leon Chwistek's Semiotic Views -- Methodological Solipsism: Charles S. Peirce's Phenomenology -- Empirical Bases of Linguistics -- Noncompositional Semantics -- The Representative Structure of a Piece of Plastic Art -- A Semantic Model of a Language of Diachrony -- Logic and Grammar: On the Rules of Inference for English -- A Lattice-Theoretical Approach to Text-Structure Study II -- Concerning the So-Called 'Structuralist-Semiotic Esthetics' -- Logical Squares and Logical Hexagons in the Analysis of Liminal Spaces -- On the Type-Token Distinction in C. S. Peirce -- An Empiricist Approach to the Problem of the Intersubjectivity of Language and C. S. Peirce's Concept of Sign -- Formal Semiotics: Objects and their Verbal Copies -- Typology of Signs in Terms of a Typology of Epistemic Situations -- The Semantic Function in Narrative Semiotics -- Meaning Families -- Some Remarks on Theories, Models, and Empirical Data in Linguistics -- Sign and Inference -- On the Use of Words -- Set Theory as an Ontological Basis of Referential Semantics -- Functional Language as a Concept of the Study of Literature: A Critical Analysis -- On Some Difficulties Involved in Lotman's Concept of the Semiotics of Culture -- Prefigurements of Art -- Private and Public Language -- The Centrifugal Structures of Modern Poetry -- Theories, Models, and Empirical Data in Linguistics -- Some Remarks on the Nature of the Linguistic Sign -- Theories of Narration and Ethnic Culture Texts -- Mythic and Modern Elements in the Art of Ladislav Fuks: Natalia Mooshaber's Mice -- Partial Definitions in Science Compared to Meaning Families in Natural Language -- Appendix: Semiotics in Poland: An Overview -- Backmatter