Preface -- People -- Umberto Eco: An Intellectual Biography -- Algirdas J. Greimas: An Intellectual Biography -- Lacan and Semiosis -- Semiotic Aspects of the Work of Jurij Michajlovič Lotman -- Victoria Lady Welby and Signifies: An Interview with H.W. Schmitz -- Masao Yamaguchi: A Hermes-Harlequin in the Field of Semiotics -- Places -- Semiotics in Australia -- Semiotics in Canada II -- Semiotics in the People's Republic of China -- Semiotics in India -- Semiotics in Mexico -- Topics -- Semiotics and Ideology -- Semiotics of Theater -- Semiotics and Ethnomethodology -- Semiotics and Archaeology -- Architectural, Design, and Space Semiotics in Argentina -- Recent Perspectives on Music Semiotics -- Urban and Regional Semiotics: A Multidisciplinary Discussion -- Semiotics and Computers: The Advent of Semiotronics? -- Contributions to the Semiotics of Marketing and Consumer Behavior 1985-88 -- The Semiotics of Folkloric Performance -- Research in Semiotics of Culture -- Organizations -- The Activities and Goals of the British Neo-Formalist Circle -- The Centro Comasco di Semiotica -- Report on the Semiotics and Artificial Intelligence Workshop (Paris, France) -- Meetings -- Report on the Semiotics, Psychiatry, and Psychoanalysis Conference -- Semiotics of the Sexes: A Report on the Sixth Symposium of the Austrian Association for Semiotics -- Report on the Third International Colloquium on Legal Semiotics -- The Second International Congress of Latin American Semiotics -- Report on the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America -- Semiotics in the North-the Tartu School Continued in Finland -- Report on the Essen Convention of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Semiotik -- Report on ISISSS '87 -- Opening Dialogue between the Discipline of History and Semiotics -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.