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Volume 1 Issue 1

Issue of Chinese Semiotic Studies

Contents
Journal Overview

June 1, 2009

Words on the First Issue of Chinese Semiotic Studies

Hu Zhuanglin

Page range: IX-IX

June 1, 2009

Sponsor’s Remarks on the First Issue of Chinese Semiotic Studies

Zhang Jie

Page range: X-X

June 1, 2009

Page range: XI-XIV

Part One. A Brief Survey of Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics and the 8th Annual Conference of the Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics

June 1, 2009

Greeting of the President of the IASS at the Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics and the 8th Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics

Eero Tarasti

Page range: 3-6

June 1, 2009

Closing Words at the Nanjing Congress on Semiotics

Eero Tarasti

Page range: 7-10

June 1, 2009

Speech at the Opening Ceremony of Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics

Hu Zhuanglin

Page range: 11-11

June 1, 2009

A Speech at the Concluding Session of Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics

Li Youzheng

Page range: 12-12

June 1, 2009

Address at the Opening Ceremony of Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics

Zhang Jie

Page range: 13-14

Part Two. New Theories and Application of Semiotics

June 1, 2009

Chinese Semiotics and Its Possible Influence on General Semiotic Theory in Future

Li Youzheng

Page range: 17-24

June 1, 2009

What Is Existential Semiotics? From Theory to Application

Eero Tarasti

Page range: 25-39

June 1, 2009

Cognitive Semiotics and Its Research Interests

Hu Zhuanglin

Page range: 40-53

June 1, 2009

The Dialogic Nature of Sign

Augusto Ponzio, Susan Petrilli

Page range: 54-67

June 1, 2009

Interpretation of Polite Utterances: A Perspective of Cognitive Semiotics

Chen Zhi’an, Yuan Yuanquan

Page range: 68-77

June 1, 2009

Semiotics as a Theoretical Basis of the Human Sciences

Roland Posner

Page range: 78-103

June 1, 2009

Intertextuality from a Critical Perspective

Xin Bin

Page range: 104-114

June 1, 2009

Globalization from the Perspective of Global Semiotics and Semioethics

Susan Petrilli

Page range: 115-150

June 1, 2009

Reception and Transformation of Former Soviet Union’s Cultural Semiotics in China

Zhang Jie, Yan Zhijun

Page range: 151-157

June 1, 2009

A Brief Introduction to and Semiotic Analysis of Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics

Guo Hong

Page range: 158-170

June 1, 2009

The Full Vista of the Action of Signs–From Semiosis to Semioethics

John Deely

Page range: 171-222

June 1, 2009

The Theoretical Foundation of Dynamic Semiotics

Gu Jiazu

Page range: 223-227

June 1, 2009

Cosmology and Communicology in an Internet World: Semiotic Perspectives of the East (PRC) and the West (U.S.A.)

Richard L. Laniga

Page range: 228-254

June 1, 2009

Towards the Indexical Function of Metonymy

Xiong Xueliang

Page range: 255-264

June 1, 2009

Social Semiotic Approach to Multimodal English Textbooks and the Role of English in a Teenager’s Life

Li Zhanzi

Page range: 265-278

June 1, 2009

Consolation to the Lovelorn? The Return of the Unforgotten in 2046

Hsiu-chih Tsai

Page range: 279-294

About this journal

Objective

Chinese Semiotic Studies (CSS) is a peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the International Institute of Semiotic Studies of Nanjing Normal University and the Chinese Semiotic Research Center of the Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics.

As the only international semiotics journal in China appearing in English, CSS is a unique outlet for Chinese scholars to be heard in global academia, affording an expanded and constructive dialogue between Chinese and non-Chinese semioticians on China-related subject matters and beyond.

Each issue contains three thematic sections: (i) Chinese Cultural Signs and Sign Theories, (ii) Western Cultural Signs and Sign Theories and (iii) Interactions between Chinese and Western semiotics.

Topics

Chinese semiotics
Linguistic studies
Area studies
Asian studies

Article formats
Original Research Articles, Review Articles, and Book Reviews.

Volume 1 Issue 1

Issue of Chinese Semiotic Studies

Titelei

CHINESE SEMIOTIC STUDIES

Impressum

Words on the First Issue of Chinese Semiotic Studies

Sponsor’s Remarks on the First Issue of Chinese Semiotic Studies

Contents

Greeting of the President of the IASS at the Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics and the 8th Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics

Closing Words at the Nanjing Congress on Semiotics

Speech at the Opening Ceremony of Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics

A Speech at the Concluding Session of Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics

Address at the Opening Ceremony of Nanjing International Symposium on Cultural Semiotics

Chinese Semiotics and Its Possible Influence on General Semiotic Theory in Future

What Is Existential Semiotics? From Theory to Application

Cognitive Semiotics and Its Research Interests

The Dialogic Nature of Sign

Interpretation of Polite Utterances: A Perspective of Cognitive Semiotics

Semiotics as a Theoretical Basis of the Human Sciences

Intertextuality from a Critical Perspective

Globalization from the Perspective of Global Semiotics and Semioethics

Reception and Transformation of Former Soviet Union’s Cultural Semiotics in China

A Brief Introduction to and Semiotic Analysis of Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics

The Full Vista of the Action of Signs–From Semiosis to Semioethics

The Theoretical Foundation of Dynamic Semiotics

Cosmology and Communicology in an Internet World: Semiotic Perspectives of the East (PRC) and the West (U.S.A.)

Towards the Indexical Function of Metonymy

Social Semiotic Approach to Multimodal English Textbooks and the Role of English in a Teenager’s Life

Consolation to the Lovelorn? The Return of the Unforgotten in 2046