BETWEEN SIGNS AND NON-SIGNS -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Sidelights -- I. SIGNS AND MASTERS IN SEMIOTIC HISTORY -- 1. A Fragment in the History of Italian Semiotics -- Premise -- 1.1 Communication in the History of Ideas -- 1.2 Flour from My Own Mill -- References -- 2. Signs about a Master of Signs -- 2.1 A Personal Premise -- 2.2 Remarks about This Selection -- 2.3 Semiotics and Philosophy -- 2.4 At the Threshold of "Social Practice" in FTS -- 2.5 Semiotics as a Biological Science in SLB -- 2.6 Sign-behavior vs. Behavior-as-communication -- 2.7 Sign-vehicles, Signifiants, and Signs -- 2.8 Meaning and the Three Dimensions -- 2.9 Summary and Conclusions -- 2.10 Writings by Charles Morris -- Notes -- References -- 3. On some Post-Morrisian Problems -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Semiotics and Philosophy -- 3.3 Signs and Values -- 3.4 Charles Morris and Social Practice -- 3.5 Semiosis and Meaning -- 3.6 Behavior and Communication -- 3.7 Behaving and "Moving About" -- 3.8 Conclusion -- References -- 4. Wittgenstein, Old and New -- 4.1 Foreword -- 4.2 Wittgenstein's Iceberg -- 4.3 Wittgenstein and Semiotics -- 4.4 Ideas for a Common Approach to Marx, Freud, and Wittgenstein -- 4.5 Wittgenstein and Alienation -- References -- II. SIGNS AS COGNITIVE AND EVALUATIVE INSTRUMENTS -- 5. Toward an Analysis of Appraisive Signs in Esthetics -- 5.1 Morris's Behavioral Approach -- 5.2 Draft of an Operational Approach to Esthetic Values -- Notes -- References -- 6. On Absurdity -- Head Note -- On Absurdity (1963) -- 6.1 "Category Mistakes" and the Reductio Ad Absurdum According to Linguistic Philosophy -- 6.2 Ryle's Procedure -- 6.3 General Weakness of the Appeal to Absurdity -- 6.4 Various Types of Absurdity, from "Linguistic" to "Real" -- 6.4.1 Unknown Words and Their Combinations.

6.4.2 Odd Combinations of Words -- 6.4.3 Difficult or Contradictory Combinations of Words -- 6.4.4 Illegitimate, or Spurious, Combinations of Words -- 6.4.5 Strangeness in the Thing Reported or Spoken About -- 6.4.6 Self-effacing Combinations of Words -- 6.5 Absurdity and Logical Types -- Notes -- References -- 7. On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences -- 7.1 Some Cases of Paired Terms -- 7.2 Instances of Overlapping Categories -- 7.2.1 Production and Consumption -- 7.2.2 Public and Private -- 7.2.3 Communication and Behavior -- 7.2.4 Language and Thought -- 7.2.5 Thought and Social Institutions -- 7.3 A Hint at the Dialectic of Essence and Phenomena -- Note -- References -- III. SIGNS, LINGUISTIC ALIENATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION -- 8. Introduction to Semiosis and Social Reproduction -- 8.1 Foreword and Outline -- 8.2 Does Semiotics Exist? -- 8.3 Social Reproduction in General -- 8.4 Social Reproduction vs. Reality -- 8.5 Three Complementary Approaches -- 9. Articulations in Verbal and Objectual Sign Systems -- Foreword -- 9.1 Artefacts and Work -- 9.2 Homology of Production -- 9.2.1 First Level: Presignificant Items -- 9.2.2 Second Level: Irreducibly Significant Items -- 9.2.3 Third Level: "Completed" Pieces -- 9.2.4 Fourth Level: Utensils and Sentences -- 9.2.5 Fifth Level: Aggregates of Utensils -- 9.2.6 Sixth Level: Mechanism -- 9.2.7 Seventh Level: Complex and Self-sufficient Mechanisms -- 9.2.8 Eighth Level: Total Mechanism or Automation -- 9.2.9 Ninth Level: Nonrepeatable Production -- 9.2.10 Tenth Level: Global Production -- 9.3 Plurality of Articulations -- 10. Sign Systems and Social Reproduction -- 10.1 Social Reproduction as the Principle of All Things -- 10.1.1 Social Reproduction, Social Practice, and History -- 10.1.2 The Idea of a Catalogue of Social Reproduction.

10.1.3 Social Reproduction as the Matrix of All Possible Categories -- 10.2 The Articulations of Social Reproduction -- 10.2.1 Production, Exchange, and Consumption -- 10.2.2 Structure and Superstructure -- 10.2.3 Modes of Production, Sign Systems, and Ideological Institutions -- 10.3 Sign Systems in Social Reproduction -- 10.3.1 The Presence of Nonverbal Sign Systems -- 10.3.2 The Influence of the Nonverbal upon the Verbal -- 10.3.3 The Position of Language in the Structure-superstructure Circle -- 10.3.4 Planning at Three Levels of All Behavior -- 10.3.5 Sign Systems and the Production of Consensus -- Note -- References -- 11. Ideas for the Study of Linguistic Alienation -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Linguistic Capital, Constant -- 11.3 Linguistic Capital, Variable -- 11.4 Total Linguistic Capital -- 11.5 Linguistic Exploitation -- 11.6 Linguistic Consumerism -- Notes -- References -- IV. SIGNS AND MATERIAL REALITY -- 12. Signs and Bodies -- Notes -- 13. Ideas for a Manifesto of Materialistic Semiotics -- 14. Toward a Theory of Sign Residues -- 14.1 Introduction: Sign Systems and Social Reproduction -- 14.2 The Typology of Signs as a Function of Social Reproduction -- 14.3 The Totality "Sign," and "Sign Residues" -- 14.3.1 Residues on the Side of Signantia -- 14.3.2 Residues on the Side of the Signata -- 14.4 Signs as Mediating between the Material and the Social -- References -- Writings by Ferruccio Rossi-Landi -- Index Auctorum -- Index Rerum.