CONTRIBUTORS

Initials of authors who contribute to Part II appear after each entry.

Myrdene Anderson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Her publications include On Semiotic Modeling (co-edited); Refiguring Debris – Becoming Unbecoming, Unbecoming Becoming (co-edited); and Cultural Shaping of Violence. (MA)

Edna Andrews is Professor of Linguistics and Cultural Anthropology, and Director of the Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES), Duke University, North Carolina. Her monographs include Conversations with Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature and Cognition; The Semantics of Suffixation in Russian; About Sintetizm, Mathematics and Other Things … Zamiatin’s novel WE; and Markedness Theory: The Union of Asymmetry and Semiosis in Language. (EA)

Eugen Baer is Dean and Professor of Philosophy at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. His publications include Semiotic Approaches to Psychotherapy and Medical Semiotics. (EB)

Merja Bauters is a lecturer and researcher at Helsinki University and Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and president of the international semiotic association UMWEB. Her publications include Changes in Beer Labels and Their Meaning: A Holistic Approach to Semiosic Process; and Semiotics from S to S (co-edited). (MB)

Søren Brier is Professor in the Semiotics of Information, Cognition and Communication Sciences in the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies at Copenhagen Business School. He has written six books in Danish and one in English, the latter being Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough. His articles include ‘Nature and machine’; ‘Biosemiotics’; ‘The Peircean paradigm for biosemiotics’; and ‘Bateson and Peirce on the pattern that connects and the sacred’. He is the founder and editor of the interdisciplinary quarterly journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing, fellow of the American Society for Cybernetics and has been awarded The Warren McCulloch Medal. (SB)

Peer Bundgaard is an associate professor and PhD in General Semiotics at the University of Aarhus. His research interests include cognitive linguistics and phenomenology of language, as well as aesthetic semiotics. His recent publications include Kunst – semiotiske beskrivelse af stetisk betydning og oplevelse; ‘The ideal scaffolding of language – E. Husserl’s fourth logical investigation in the light of cognitive linguistics’; ‘The grammar of aesthetic intuition’; and, as editor, Kognitiv Semiotik (with Frederik Stjernfelt). (PB)

Sara Cannizzaro is a lecturer at London Metropolitan University. Her research is in the field of systems theory and biosemiotics and her publications include ‘On logic and differentiation: Principles of life’ and ‘“The Line of Beauty”: On natural forms and abduction’. (SC)

Rocco Capozzi is Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature, semiotics and literary theories at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Bernari. Tra fantasia e realtà; Scrittori, critici e industria culturale; and Leggere Il Nome della Rosa e l’intertestualità. He is also the editor of A Homage to Moravia; Scrittori e le poetiche letterarie in Italia; Reading Eco; and Italo Calvino Lightness and Multiplicity. (RC)

Bruce Clarke is Professor of Literature and Science at Texas Tech University. His publications include Energy Forms: Allegory and Science in the Era of Classical Thermodynamics; Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems; and (with Mark Hansen) Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays in Second-Order Systems Theory. With Manuela Rossini, he is currently preparing the Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. (BC)

Paul Cobley is Reader in Communications at London Metropolitan University. His publications include Introducing Semiotics (with Litza Jansz); Narrative; The American Thriller: Generic Innovation and Social Change in the 1970s; and, as editor, The Communication Theory Reader; Communication Theories (4 vols); The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics; and Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader. (PC)

Nikolas Coupland is Professor and Research Director of the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University. His books include Metalanguage: Social and Ideological Perspectives (with Adam Jaworski and Dariusz Galasinski); Style: Language, Variation and Identity; The Discourse Reader (second edition, with Adam Jaworski); and The New Sociolinguistics Reader (with Adam Jaworski). He is currently editing The Blackwell Handbook of Language and Globalisation. (NC)

Marcel Danesi is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto. Among his recent books are The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice; Problem-Solving in Mathematics: A Semiotic Perspective for Educators and Teachers; Language, Society and Culture: Introducing Anthropological Linguistics; Why it Sells: Decoding the Meanings of Brand Names, Logos, Ads, and Other Marketing and Advertising Ploys; Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives; X-Rated: The Power of Mythic Symbolism in Popular Culture; and Dictionary of Media and Communications (edited). He is also editor-in-chief of Semiotica. (MD)

John Deely is a Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Thomas in Houston, Texas. His books include Basics of Semiotics; New Beginnings; The Human Use of Signs: Elements of Anthroposemiosis; Four Ages of Understanding: The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from the Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-first Century; Intentionality and Semiotics; and Augustine and Poinsot, Descartes and Poinsot, among others (JD)

Claus Emmeche is an associate professor and centre director at the Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at the University of Copenhagen. His publications include Genes, Information, and Semiosis (with Charbel Niño El-Hani and João Queiroz); Constructing and Explaining Emergence in Artificial Life; and On the Biosemiotics of Embodiment and Our Human Cyborg Nature. (CE)

Donald Favareau is an assistant professor in the University Scholars Programme at the National University of Singapore. His recent publications include chapters in Introduction to Biosemiotics: The New Biological Synthesis; Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts; and A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics. He is vice-president of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies and the editor of the anthology Essential Readings in Biosemiotics. (DF)

Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Oxford. His publications include The Language Makers; The Language Myth; The Language Machine; The Language Connection; and Signs, Language and Communication. His translation of Saussure’s Cours de linguistique générale was awarded the Scott Moncrieff prize. (RH)

Anne Hénault, ENS (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), is Professor of Sciences of Language at the University of Paris (Doctoral School of Paris-Sorbonne). She has published, inter alia, Le Pouvoir comme Passion (which includes a debate between Algirdas J. Greimas and Paul Ricoeur); Histoire de la Sémiotique; and, both as editor and author, Questions de Sémiotique. She started, together with A. J. Greimas, Actes Sémiotiques in order to circulate the working papers of the Paris School. She is director of the series Formes Sémiotiques. (AH)

Jesper Hoffmeyer is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Copenhagen. His publications include Biosemiotics. An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs and, as editor, A Legacy of Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics.

Nathan Houser is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Indiana University in Indianapolis (IUPUI). He has served as director of the Peirce Edition Project and the Institute for American Thought and as president of the Charles S. Peirce Society and the Semiotic Society of America. From 1993 to 2009 he was general editor for the Indianapolis critical edition of Peirce’s writings, he co-edited the two-volume Essential Peirce and Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce and is the author of many articles on Peirce’s logic and semiotics. (NH)

Robert Innis is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His books include Karl Bühler: Semiotic Foundations of Language Theory; Consciousness and the Play of Signs; Pragmatism and the Forms of Sense: Language, Perception, Technics; and Susanne Langer in Focus: The Symbolic Mind. (RI)

Adam Jaworski is Professor at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University. His books include The Discourse Reader; The New Sociolinguistics Reader; (both with Nikolas Coupland); Semiotic Landscapes: Language, Image, Space; and Tourism Discourse: Language and Global Mobility; (both with Crispin Thurlow). (AJ)

Adam Kendon studied biology and psychology at Cambridge and Oxford. At present affiliated to the University of Pennsylvania and recently with the University of Naples ‘Orientale’ in Naples and the University of Calabria, he studies gesture as a component of communication in face-to-face interaction. He published a critical English edition of Andrea de Jorio’s 1832 treatise on Neapolitan gesture in 2000 and, in 2004, a book entitled Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance.(AK)

Gunther R. Kress is Professor of Education/English at the Institute of Education, University of London. His publications include Language as Ideology and Social Semiotics (both with Robert Hodge); Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (with Theo van Leeuwen); Before Writing; Early Spelling; and Multimodal Teaching and Learning and Multimodality. (GRK)

Kalevi Kull is Professor in Biosemiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia. His publications include Lectures in Theoretical Biology (co-editor, 2 vols); a special volume of Semiotica about Jakob von Uexküll (editor); Imagining Nature: Practices of Cosmology and Identity (co-editor); and papers about the recognition concept of species, semiotic aspects of evolution, history and theory of biosemiotics, and ecosemiotics. (KK)

Richard Lanigan is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology (Emeritus), Southern Illinois University. He is Director and Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, Washington, DC. He has twice been a Senior Fulbright Fellow (China 1996, Canada 2007) and is a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. He is vice-president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. His books include Speaking and Semiology; The Human Science of Communicology; and Speech Act Phenomenology. (RL)

Svend Erik Larsen is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. His semiotic publications include Sémiologie littéraire; Signs in Use; Actualité de Brøndal (editor); and Gärten und Parks (editor). (SEL)

David Machin works in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. His books include Global Media Discourse, co-authored with Theo van Leeuwen; Introduction to Multimodal Analysis; and News Production: Theory and Practice, co-authored with Sarah Niblock. His most recent book is on multimodality, titled Analysing Popular Music, along with an edited collection on Media Audiences with Barrie Gunter. He has published numerous articles in reviewed journals especially in the field of visual communication and discourse analysis. (DMac)

Giovanni Manetti is Professor of Semiotics and History of Semiotics at Siena University (Italy). His publications include L’enunciazione. Dalla svolta comunicativa ai nuovi media; Specchio delle mie brame. Dodici anni di spot televisivi; Theories of the Sign in Classical Antiquity; Sport e giochi nell’antichità classica; Grammatica dell’arguzia (with Patrizia Violi); and, as editor, Animali, angeli, macchine. Come comunicano e come pensano (with A. Prato); Il contagio e i suoi simboli (2 vols); Semiotica: testi esemplari. Storia, teoria, pratica, proposte (with P. Bertetti); Forme della testualità. Teorie, modelli, storia, e prospettive (with P. Bertetti); Signs and Signification (with H. S. Gill, 2 vols); Knowledge through Signs. Ancient Semiotic Theories and Practices; and Signs of Antiquity/Antiquity of Signs.

Timo Maran is Senior Research Fellow in Semiotics at Tartu University. His publications include Mimikri semiootika [Semiotics of Mimicry]; and, as editor, Readings in Zoosemiotics (with Dario Martinelli and Aleksei Turovski); Eesti looduskultuur [Estonian Culture of Nature] (with Kadri Tüür). (TM)

Dario Martinelli is Docent of Musicology and Semiotics at the University of Helsinki. His publications include How Musical is a Whale? Towards a Theory of Zoomusicology; Zoosemiotics: Proposals for a Handbook; Of Birds, Whales and Other Musicians: Introduction to Zoomusicology; and, as editor, Semiotics from S to S;Music,Senses, Body; and Stili, Stilemi, Stilismi. He is editor-in-chief of IF – Journal of Italo-Finnish Studies. (DMar)

Floyd Merrell is Professor of Semiotics and Spanish American Cultural and Literary Studies at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. His publications include Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the ‘New Physics’; Peirce, Signs, and Meaning; Signs Grow; Sensing Semiosis; Simplicity and Complexity; Tasking Textuality; Complementing Latin American Borders; Capoeira and Candomblé; and Processing Cultural Meaning. (FM)

Paul Perron is Professor of French and Principal of University College, University of Toronto. His publications include A. J. Greimas and Narrative Cognition and Analyzing Cultures (with M. Danesi); Balzac: Sémiotique du personnage romanesque; and Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel. (PP)

Susan Petrilli is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari, Department of Linguistic Practices and Text Analysis. Her monographs include: Significs, semiotica, significazione; Materia segnica e interpretazione. Figure e prospettive; Che cosa significa significare? Itinerari nello studio dei segni; Su Victoria Welby. Significs e filosofia del linguaggio; Teoria dei segni e del linguaggio; Percorsi della semiotica; Signifying and Understanding. Reading the Works of Victoria Welby and the Significs Movement; and Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective. Semiotics and Responsibilities. In 2008 she was nominated 7th Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America. (SP)

Augusto Ponzio is Full Professor of Philosophy of Language and General Linguistics at the University of Bari. He is the author of numerous books, including I segni tra globalità e infinità. Per la critica della comunicazione globale; Elogio dell’infunzionale; Semiotica e dialettica; The Dialogic Nature of the Sign; La cifrematica dell’ascolto; Fuori luogo. L’esorbitante nella riproduzione dell’identico; Linguistica generale, scrittura letteraria e traduzione; A mente. Processi cognitivi e formazione linguistica; Linguaggio, lavoro e mercato globale. Rileggendo Rossi-Landi; and La dissidenza cifrematica. (AP)

Anti Randviir is Senior Researcher at the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu. His publications include Mapping the World: Towards a Sociosemiotic Approach to Culture; Sociosemiotica (co-edited); ‘Spatialization of knowledge: Cartographic roots of globalization’; ‘On spatiality in Tartu–Moscow cultural semiotics: The semiotic subject’; and ‘Semiotization: What, where, how?’. He is also the editor of the journal Acta Semiotica Estica. (AR)

Raphael Salkie is Professor of Language Studies at the University of Brighton. His publications include The Chomsky Update and Text and Discourse Analysis, as well as ‘Modals and prototypes: English and German in contrast’; ‘Where is contrastive linguistics?’; and ‘Will: Tense or modal or both?’. (RS)

Peter J. Schulz is Professor of Communication Theories and Health Communication at the School of Communication Sciences and director of the Institute of Communication and Health, University of Lugano. He is the author of five books and of more than sixty journal articles, as well as the editor of five books (including Communication Theories, 4 vols). (PJS)

Thomas A. Sebeok (1920–2001) was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Semiotics and Senior Fellow in the School of Information Sciences at Indiana University. As well as the being the major figure in the development of semiotics, along with Peirce and Saussure, he served as the General Editor of the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics (2nd edn, Vols 1–3, 1994), and was co-editor of Semiotics: A Handbook on the Sign-Theoretic Foundations of Nature and Culture (Vols 1–2, 1997; Vol. 3, 2002). (TAS)

Kathryn Staiano-Ross is a medical anthropologist. Her publications include Interpreting Signs of Illness: A Case Study in Medical Semiotics; Tales from a Forgotten Place (with Bismark Ranguy); and a number of articles published in Semiotica on the subjects of medical semiotics and biocultural semiotics. (KSR)

Pippa Stein (1955–2008) was an English teacher–educator at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She was the author of Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse Classrooms: Rights, Representations and Resources and co-author of English Studies in Africa. She published in the TESOL Quarterly and the Harvard Educational Review. (PS)

Frederik Stjernfelt is a professor at the Center for Semiotics at Aarhus University. He is the editor of the periodical KRITIK and a critic at Weekendavisen. His publications include Diagrammatology. An Investigation on the Borderline of Phenomenology, Ontology, and Semiotics, as well as numerous papers in international journals and several books in Danish.

William C. Stokoe (1919–2000) was Professor Emeritus of Gallaudet University, Washington, DC. He taught language and culture there and investigated and described American Sign Language, giving that name to a language denied language status for millennia. His publications included Sign Language Structure; A Dictionary of ASL; Gesture and the Nature of Language (with David Armstrong and Sherman Wilcox); and Language in Hand. (WCS)

Mihály Szívós is Senior Researcher at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His publications include ‘Introduction: The concept of emergence in philosophical and semiotic context’; ‘Quelques aspects sémiotiques du savoir tacite’; and ‘Le rôle des motifs socratiques et platoniciens dans la structure et la genèse du Neveu de Rameau de Diderot’. (MS)

Eero Tarastiis a professor at the University of Helsinki and is current president of the IASS. His books include Myth and Music; A Theory of Musical Semiotics; Existential Semiotics; and Signs of Music. (ET)

Peeter Torop is Professor of the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, President of the Estonian Semiotics Association and co-editor of Sign Systems Studies. His major publications include Total Translation; Dostoevsky: History and Ideology; Signs of Culture; Russian Text (19th Century) and Antiguity; ‘Tartu School as school’; ‘The position of translation in translation studies’; ‘Semiotics, Anthropology and the Analysability of Culture’ and ‘Translation as Communication and Auto-communication’ (PT).

Jef Verschueren is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Antwerp. He is the founder and secretary-general of the International Pragmatics Association. His publications include Handbook of Pragmatics (co-edited with Jan-Ola Östman et al., now also available online); Debating Diversity (co-authored with Jan Blommaert); and Understanding Pragmatics. (JV)

Sherman Wilcox is currently Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, and Professor of Linguistics, University of New Mexico. His publications include The Gestural Origin of Language (with David Armstrong); Learning to See: Teaching American Sign Language as a Second Language (with Phyllis Wilcox); and Gesture and the Nature of Language (with David Armstrong and William Stokoe). Dr Wilcoxspecializes in the linguistic study of signed languages and the interface between gesture and language. (SW)