Jaan Valsiner
The semiotic construction of solitude:
Processes of internalization and externalization 9
Jo?o Queiroz, Floyd Merrell
Semiosis and pragmatism: Toward a dynamic concept of meaning 37
Andres Luure
The duality of understanding and the understanding of duality in semiotics 67
The semiotic thresholds
Guido Ipsen
From environment to culture: Aspects of continuity 83
Louis Armand
From materiality to system 105
Andrew Stables
From semiosis to social policy: The less trodden path 121
Göran Sonesson
The meaning of meaning in biology and cognitive science:
A semiotic reconstruction 135
Semiotics of disaster and explosion
Han-liang Chang
Disaster semiotics: An alternative 'global semiotics'? 215
Sungdo Kim
Semiotics of natural disaster discourse in post-tsunami world: A theoretical framework 231
Irene Machado
Impact or explosion? Technological culture and the ballistic metaphor 245
Semiotics of the end
Structural paradoxes of Russian literature and poetics of pseudobroken text. Summary 261
