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.
Table of contents
General semiotics
Han-liang Chang - Is language a primary modeling system? On Juri Lotman's concept of semiosphere (9-23)
Augusto Ponzio - Modeling, dialogue, and globality: Biosemiotics and semiotics of self.
1. Semiosis, modeling, and dialogism (25-63)
Susan Petrilli - Modeling, dialogue, and globality: Biosemiotics and semiotics of self.
2. Biosemiotics, semiotics of self, and semioethics (65-107)
Torkild Thellefsen, Christian Jantzen - What relations are: A case study on conceptual relations, displacement of meaning and knowledge profiling (109-132)
Semiotics of literature
Frederik Stjernfelt - The ontology of espionage in reality and fiction: A case study on iconicity (133-162)
Loreta Macianskaite - Semiotics of guilt in two Lithuanian literary texts (163-175)
Bruno Osimo - Strange, very strange, like in a dream: Borders and translations in 'Strogij Yunosha' (177-189)
Semiotics of mimesis
Timo Maran - Mimesis as a phenomenon of semiotic communication (191-215)
Jelena Grigorjeva - Lotman on mimesis (217-237)
Semiotics of culture
Maria del Mar Llera - Pragmatic approaches to intercultural ethics: the basis for fostering communication among nationalist groups (239-260)
Dalia Satkauskyte - The myth of the nation of poets and mass poetry in Lithuania (261-269)
Marcin Brocki - Semiotics of culture and New Polish Ethnology (271-279)
Ecosemiotics
Morten Tųnnessen - Umwelt ethics (281-299)
Reviews
Myrdene Anderson - Rothschild's ouroborus (301-314)
