Table of contents -- Introduction: Unfoding the semiotic web in urban discourse 7 -- Richard L. Lanigan: On homeworld and community models of the city: The communicology of egocentric and sociocentric cultures in urban semiotics 11 -- Zdzis.aw Wąsik: Towards an idea of urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city - developing a conceptual framework 47 -- Daina Teters: The city as a space and the space in the city: A semiotic inquiry into the formation of Riga 73 -- Zdzis.aw Wąsik: Roots and varieties of functionalist discourses in the understanding of linguistic functions 105 -- Elżbieta Wąsik: Linguistic functionalism and the principle of abstractive relevance in the metaurbanist discourse on art and architecture 123 -- Richard L. Lanigan: Slugging: The nonce sign in an urban communicology of transportation 143 -- Camelia Cmeciu, Doina Cmeciu: New insights into corporate social responsibility: The semiotic act of experiencing a city through street naming 163 -- Daina Teters: Imaginary architecture and the verbal description of emptiness: Paths, roads, and streets - a research communiqué 181 -- Ioana Boghian: The semiotics of urban space and architecture in literary discourse of the Victorian period 195 -- Józef Zaprucki: On the historical interference in the urban discourse - a research communiqué (on the basis of Jelenia Góra and Karkonosze mountains region) 215 -- Index: Names of source-work's authors 225.