Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- People -- A Life's Pursuit -- A Semiotician in Disguise: Semiotic Aspects of the Work of Viggo Brøndal -- Eric Buyssens's Les langages et le discours: A Functional Analysis of Man's Use of Signs -- Places -- Semiotics in Argentina -- Semiotics in Austria -- Semiotics in Belgium -- Semiotics in Canada I -- Semiotics in Norway: Signs of Life on the Fjords -- Semiotics in Poland -- Semiotics in Spain -- Semiotics in Uruguay: A Very Brief Report for a Very Brief History -- Topics -- Semiotics and Popular Culture -- Semiotics and Education - Strands in the Web -- Semiotics and Nursing -- Semiotic Tools for the Study of Organizational Cultures -- Basic Concepts of Studies in Musical Signification: A Report on a New International Research Project in Semiotics of Music -- Research and Teaching Projects -- International Semiotic Exchanges: The UCSD Semiotic Research Project and the Groupe de Recherches Sémiolinguistiques -- Semiotics and the Social Sciences: The UCSD Semiotics Research Project -- Semiotic Studies in Bologna: A Report -- Semiotic Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal -- Associations -- The Semiotic Circle of California -- The International Association for Semiotic Studies: A View of its Past, Present, and Future -- Asociación Española de Semiótica -- Meetings -- Fourth International Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies -- The Postmodern Summer Session: A Report on ISISSS '86 -- The First Round Table on Law and Semiotics: A Survey of the Council with Predictive Speculations -- International Symposium on the Foundations of Semiotics at Perpignan, March 1986 -- Semiotics at the Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting -- Publications -- A History of Degrés -- The Mouton d'Or Award -- Index of Subjects