The Significance of the Guiyang Secondary Symposium of the China Semiotics Forum (2013,7,19-22) Dear President Eero Tarasti and Bureau Colleagues of IASS: This is a report on and interpretation of a significant progress of Chinese semiotics...

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...

The Plenary Speech at the Nanjing 11 th IASS Congress by Youzheng Li Introductory Speech by Prof.Tsai Hsiu-chih, Taiwan University. For Youzheng Lis Humanist Ethics and Future of Semiotics: I am much honored to have this opportunity to intr...

The Kunqu-Opera: A Multi-Structural-Organized Performing Art (A explantive Brief for the performance of the Jiangsu Kunqu Troupe at the Openning day of the Nanjing 11 th IASS congress) The Kun-qu Opera (literally: kun=name of a place, qu =...

A letter to the participants of 2012 Nanjing IASS-Congress ( 致 2012 南京国际符号学大会参加者的信 ) May 10, 2012 Dear Semiotic and Human-scientific Scholars, The Nanjing 11 th IASS Congress is approaching now. The Nanjing Con...

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

Semiotics as the Semantic Organizer of Global Human Sciences ---Semiotic Theory: Western Philosophy-central vs. Global Interdsciplinary (A paper read in the 10th IASS Congress in La Coruna, Sept. 22, 2009) Youzheng Li The problems of semiot...

Abstract This paper intends to point out that general or theoretical semiotics, far from being some original meta-semiotics or semiotic philosophy, is itself a synthetic body of a more general theoretical source outside the semiotic proper...

The Epistemological Turn in Theoretical Semiotics: From Signs in the natural/cultural world to the semantic institutions of academic discourses* (in: SEMIOTICA, V.162 - 1/4[2006] ) The strategic shift of object-domain in semiotic operation...

The humanities or human sciences stand between the more empirical-positive social sciences and traditional scholarship. This mixed character nevertheless does not render the human sciences less important in social life. Despite the superior...