Publisher: Estonian Semiotics Association, 20051


I volume.
Editors: Andres Kõnno ja Anti Randviir.

Acta Semiotica Estica, the series of Estonian Semiotics Association, publishing articles on various topics and presenting current trends in semiotics in Estonia as well as abroad, aims to introduce semiotics as an academic field in Estonia and develop Estonian terminology in semiotics. The collections bring together original research and translation articles. The series is published in Estonian, with abstracts in English.

Contents:

Preface or What is the sense of it?
What is semiotics, indeed? An interview with Thomas A. Sebeok
Anti Randviir On the semiotic study of culture
Andres Kõnno The semiotics of ideological description
Valdur Mikita Creative cultures or creative people?
Kaire Maimets A short introduction to musical semiotics
Virve Sarapik Semiotics on the crossroads of art
Kerttu-Kaisa Kiviselg A semiotic analysis of print advertisement
Ott Heinapuu The signs of etnofuturism in the contemporary Livonian culture
Leili Iher The conceptuality of the artefact on the background of literature (and poetry)
Maria-Kristiina Lotman Metre and its semantic aureole: Archaic Ionic tradition of verse
Kenn Konstaabel «Uued liblikad on tehtud tolmust ja värvidest...». On the translation of time on the example of J. Kaplinski's «Tolmust ja värvidest»
Rein Veidemann Scene and frame. Aspects of semiotics of time and of textual