Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Signs to Talk About Signs -- 1.1 Meaning as an Interpretative Route -- 1.2 The Referent as Implicit Interpretant -- 1.3 Signality and the Interpretant of Identification in Verbal Signs -- 1.4 Signality and the Interpretant of Identification in Nonverbal Signs -- 1.5 Signality and Percepts -- 1.6 Conventionality, Indexicality and Iconicity between Interpreteds and Interpretants -- 1.7 Signs and Answering Comprehension -- 1.8 Enuntiatum, Text and Discourse Genre -- Bibliography -- 2. Adventures of the Sign -- 2.1 Meaning and Referent in Peter of Spain -- 2.2 Signifies and Semiotics. Victoria Welby and Giovanni Vailati -- 2.3 On the Signs of Ferruccio Rossi-Landi's Work -- 2.4 Methodics of Common Speech in Rossi-Landi -- 2.5 Humanism, Language and Knowledge in Adam Schaff -- 2.6 Notes on Semiotics and Marxism -- 2.7 For a Critique of Equal Exchange Semiotics -- 2.8 Symbol, Alterity and Abduction -- 2.9 Dialogue and Alterity in Bakhtin -- 2.10 Writing and Otherness in Bakhtin, Blanchot, Lévinas -- 2.11 Semiotics Between Peirce and Bakhtin -- 2.12 Looking Back While Moving On -- Bibliography -- 3. Appendix I: The Problem of Signifying in Welby, Peirce, Vailati, Bakhtin, by Susan Petrilli -- 3.0 Introduction -- 3.1 Significs, Meaning and Signs -- 3.2 The Critique of Language in Vailati and Welby -- 3.3 Signs and Meaning in Welby and Bakhtin -- 4. Appendix II: On the Materiality of Signs, by Susan Petrilli -- 4.1 Signs and Nonsigns -- 4.2 Verbal and Nonverbal Signs -- 4.3 Bodies and Signs -- 4.4 Ideological Signs -- 4.5 Further Aspects of Sign Materiality -- 4.6 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography to the Appendices -- Subject Index -- Index of Names.