Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Section 1: Semiotic epistemologies -- Welcome to Semiosistan! -- Beyond teleonomy: Towards a biology of semiotic realism -- Risky heuristics -- The semiotic inquirer and the practice of empirical inquiry -- Transdisciplinarity as a solution to the challenges of the contemporary world -- Section 2: Contemporary schools of theoretical semiotics -- Notes towards a semiotic theory of learning -- Scarcity and meaning: Towards a semiotics of economic transaction -- Applied ecosemiotics: Ontological basis and conceptual models -- The anthropological dimension of Greimas' narrative semiotics -- What happens? The Zemic model in existential semiotics -- Section 3: Applications and practical discussions -- Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce's semiotic perspective -- Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest -- Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing -- Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis -- On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography -- Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system -- Index