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.
Peeter Torop - Semiospherical understanding: Textuality
Semiotics of language
Marcel Danesi - Metaphorical "networks" and verbal communications: A semiotic perspective of human discourse
M. Paladjan - Function of characterization in present tense. (in Russian, abstract in English)
Visual semiotics
Winfried Nöth - Semiotic foundations of the study of pictures
Maria Galtsman - On some graphic regularities of perception in painting and dance: Mnemonic form of dance (in Russian, abstract in English)
Semiotics of literature
Han-liang Chang - Notes towards a semiotics of parasitism
Maria-Kristiina Lotman - On the semantics of rhythm: Formal differences between the characters of Oresteia in tregedy
Marina Aptekman - The problem of language and reality in Russian modernism: The conception of mirotvorchestvo in A. Remizov's Rossiya v pis 'menah
Ülle Pärli - On postmodernism, "the stairs of avant-garde", and Brodsky
Ilia Kalinin - The semiotic model of a historical process: History - between grammar and rhetoric
Jan Levchenko - When a Russian Formalist meets his individual history
Valerij Gretchko - Aesthetic conception of Russian Formalism: The cognitive view
Medical semiotics
Stepan Daviatian, Tatyana Chernigovskaya - Psychiatry in free fall: In pursuit of a semiotic foothold
Biosemiotics
Tommi Vehkavaara - Natural self-interest, interactive representation, and the emergence of objects and Umwelt: An outline of basic semiotic concepts for biosemiotics
Kalevi Kull - Ladder, tree, web: The ages of biological understanding
Reviews
Anton Markos, Eduard Gajdos, Laszlo Hajnal, Fatima Cvrckova - An epigenetic machine
