Preface -- People -- Halliday as Semiotician -- Alexander Bryan Johnson (1786-1867): The First Linguistic Philosopher -- The Semiotics of Lévi-Strauss: Translation as Communication -- The Semiotics of Luis Jorge Prieto -- Semiotics and Art: The Contribution of Mieczysław Wallis (1895-1975) -- Places -- Brazil: A Culture in Tune with Semiotics -- Semiotics in Colombia: Within New Perspectives -- Semiotics in Peru 1980-1988 -- Semiotics in Romania -- Semiotics in the United States -- Topics -- Meaning, Subject, and Reality as Semiotic Foci of Political Research -- The Rediscovery of the Audience in Television Studies -- Semiotics and Mass Communication Research: Key Intersections -- Psychoanalysis and Semiotics: A Retrospect -- Psychosemiotics -- Semiotic Approaches to Figurative Narration -- The Semiotics of Clothing: Linking Structural Analysis with Social Process -- A Semiotic Approach to Product Forms -- Bacterial (Prokaryotic) Communication -- Photography and Semiotics -- Signs Before Speech -- Meetings -- Report of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America -- Seven Finnish-Hungarian Semiotic Symposia (1985-1989) -- Index.