Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- People -- The Semiotics of Edwin Ardener -- Sign and Spirit: The Semiotics of M.M. Bakhtin -- The Meaning of Nonsense and the Empirical Turn: The Semiotics of Paul Bouissac -- The Semiotics of Pierre Guiraud -- The Semiotics of Cesare Segre -- René Thorn's Semiotics: An Application to the Pathological Limitations of Semiosis -- Jakob von Uexkiill's Umwelt-Theory -- Places -- Semiotic Vignettes: France, 1987 -- Semiotics in Iceland -- Semiotics in Nigeria -- Semiology in Vietnam -- Topics -- Semiotics and Medicine -- Toward a Semiotics of Old Age -- Semiotics of Rhetoric: The Consumption of Fantasy -- Cine-semiotics -- Semiotics and Artificial Intelligence -- Low on RAM: The Semiotics of Computing -- Semiotics and Marxism -- Meeting -- ISISSS '88: University of British Columbia, August 2-26 -- Index -- Backmatter