Semiotics as the Semantic Organizer of Global Human Sciences ---Semiotic Theory: Western Philosophy-central vs. Global Interdsciplinary (A paper read in the 10th IASS Congress in La Coruna, Sept. 22, 2009) Youzheng Li The problems of semiot...

Abstract This paper intends to point out that general or theoretical semiotics, far from being some original meta-semiotics or semiotic philosophy, is itself a synthetic body of a more general theoretical source outside the semiotic proper...

The Epistemological Turn in Theoretical Semiotics: From Signs in the natural/cultural world to the semantic institutions of academic discourses* (in: SEMIOTICA, V.162 - 1/4[2006] ) The strategic shift of object-domain in semiotic operation...

The humanities or human sciences stand between the more empirical-positive social sciences and traditional scholarship. This mixed character nevertheless does not render the human sciences less important in social life. Despite the superior...

EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON SEMIOTIC APPROACHES: - SEMIOTICS AND THE HUMANITIES * The Scientific orientation of one discipline or one field is not only linked with its internal scientific arrangement but also with its external connections...

Epistemological Reflection on Semiotic Approach: Semiotics and the Humanities ------------------- * This article was originally prepared for the special issue of Chinese semiotics, American Journal of Semiotic Studies, 1995. But finally it...

(The paper was read in the 5 th IASS Congress, Berkeley and published in Semiotic Around World 1995-96, Vienna ) 1. Semiotics as a Discipline or as a Working Field? 2. Divergence of Substantial Aspects vs. Homogeneity of Formal Aspects 3. G...

Verbal Medium and Constitution of Meaning (The paper was read in he International Conference of Media, Kassel, 1995; it was published in Journal of European Semiotics, 1997 ) Summary The article attempts to use the semiotic concept of mediu...

(a concluding lecture at the Beijing Semiotics Congress, March 28, 2004) You-zheng Li The Center for Comparative Civilization Studies, CASS (The paper in both Chinese and English versions will be published in the two proceedings co-edited b...

Verbal Medium and Constitution of Meaning (The paper was read in he International Conference of Media, Kassel, 1995; it was published in Journal of European Semiotics, 1997 ) Summary The article attempts to use the semiotic concept of mediu...