A serious warning against the illegal intrusion into my Website I have just found that a great number of files in English and French illegally and secretly occupy the space of the English Part of my website. We cannot find them from the off...

New Preface The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype and The Constitution of Han- A cademic Ideology (under the general title Chinese Ethics Academic Ideology: A Hermeneutico-Semiotic Study ) were finished at the Institute of Philosop...

The Speech at the Concluding Session of the 11 th IASS Congress (October 9, 2012 Morning) Youzheng Li The Concluding Session of the 11th IASS Congress. From left to right: YouZheng Li, Eero Tarasti, Jose maria Paz Gago, Xingbin. Photography...

A Sketch of Professor Youzheng Li, Vice President of International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS) ...

Nonwestern semiotics and its possible impact on the composition of Semiotics Theory in future * Youzheng Li Abstract Traditionally we get used to a dichotomy of the theoretical and the applied levels in semiotic studies. Therefore there exi...

Youzheng Li Background : This paper was read in Helsinki University in June 13, 2007 as a plenary lecture for the 9 th IASS Congress. It was introduced by Prof. Roland Posner, the honorary President of IASS. Before delivering this lecture I...

The Strategic Shift of the Domain of Theoretical Semiotics: From Reality to Discourse Global semiotics can be taken as equivalent to comparative semiotics that leads to a new reflection on general or theoretical semiotics. The global/compar...

Epistemological Implication of The Intercultural Semiotic Movement: Towards A New Enlightenment in Theoretical Practice of Mankind (this paper was read in the sance Semiotics and Theory of the 8th IASS Congress of Lyon, July 9, 2004) Summar...

Significance and Perspective of the Chinese-Western Semiotic Dialogue (A concluding lecture prepared for the Beijing Semiotics Congress on behalf of the Chinese side, March 28, 2004) Summary This international congress implies both the subs...