The journal was established by Juri Lotman (as Trudy po Znakovym Sistemam - Shmeiwtikh [ Semeiotiké]) in 1964, thus being internationally the oldest semiotic periodical. Initially a Russian-language series, it became into a central institution of semiotics of culture. Since 1998, it is published as an international reviewed journal on semiotics of culture and nature.
Semiotics of culture
Floyd Merrell - Lotman's semiosphere, Peirce's categories, and cultural forms of life (385-416)
Mihhail Lotman - Semiotics of culture and phenomenology of fear (417-440)
Ivan Mladenov - Unlimited semiosis and heteroglossia (C. S. Peirce and M. M. Bakhtin) (441-462)
Irene Machado - Projections: Semiotics of culture in Brazil (463-478)
Semiotics of text
Paul Cobley - Analysing narrative genres (479-502)
Marina Grishakova - Metaphor and narrative (503-518)
Larissa Naiditch - Remarks on semantic peculiarities of numerals and on usage of numerals in several kinds of texts (519-534)
Maria-Kristiina Lotman - Prosody and versification systems of ancient verse (535-562)
Elin Sütiste - Translating the seventeen syllables (563-586)
Sociosemiotics
Rodney J. Clarke - Social semiotic contributions to the systemic semiotic workpractice framework (587-606)
Anti Randviir - Sociosemiotic perspectives on studying culture and society (607-626)
Ecosemiotics
Paul Bouissac - On signs, memes and MEMS: Toward evolutionary ecosemiotics (627-646) [ Abstract]
Han-liang Chang - Naming animals in Chinese writing (647-656)
Eero Tarasti - Metaphors of nature and organicism in the epistemology of music: A "biosemiotic" introduction to the analysis of Jean Sibelius' symphonic thought (657-682)
Biosemiotics
Morten Tonnessen - Outline of an Uexküllian bio-ontology (683-692) [ Abstract]
Kalevi Kull - A note on biorhetorics (693-704)
Reviews, comments, perspectives
John Deely - A sign is what? (Presidential Address to the Semiotic Society of America delivered at Oct. 19, 2001, luncheon of 26th Annual Meeting held at Victoria University, Toronto) (705-744)
Andreas Schönle - Lotman in an interdisciplinary context: A symposium held at the University of Michigan (745-748)
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Alphabetic list of contributors:
Paul Bouissac
Han-liang Chang
Rodney J. Clarke
Paul Cobley
John Deely
Marina Grishakova
Kalevi Kull
Maria-Kristiina Lotman
Mihhail Lotman
Irene Machado
Floyd Merrell
Ivan Mladenov
Larissa Naiditch
Anti Randviir
Andreas Schönle
Elin Sütiste
Eero Tarasti
Morten Tönnessen
