This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike.

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Global Semiotics
2. The Evolution of Semiosis
3. Biosemiotics: Its Roots, Proliferation, and Prospects
4. Galen in Medical Semiotics
5. Signs, Bridges, Origins
6. What Do We Know about the Signifying Behavior in the Domestic Cat (Felis catus)?
7. "Give Me Another Horse"
8. Nonverbal Communication
9. Intersemiotics Transmutations: A Genre of Hybrid Jokes
10. "Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?": The Biosemiotic Self
11. The Cognitive Self and the Virtual Self
12. Some Reflections on Vico in Semiotics
13. Women in Semiotics
14. The Music of the Spheres
15. The Estonian Connection
16. My "Short Happy Life" in Finno-Ugric Studies
17. The Uralic Studies and English for Hungarians at Indiana University: A Personal View
Notes
References
Index of Names