Part One Semiotic Conference Information 3
The 11th World Congress of Semiotics Call for Papers 3
A Brief Introduction to Zhuanglin Hu,President of the Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics（CALS） 5
Part Two New Theories and Applications of Semiotics 11
On the Cross-cuitural Semiotic Turn&Youzheng Li（China） 11
The Enminded Body.Spinoza,Descartes,and the Philosophy of Cognition—A Critical Note&Per Aage Brandt（U.S.A.） 26
The Convergence of Signs in Flannery O'Connor's“Parker's Back”&Hsiu-chih Tsai（Taiwan,China） 42
Philosophical Aspects of Semiotics&Abraham Solomonick（Israel） 62
A Semiotic Study of the Idiosyncratic“CHI＋NP”Construction in Chinese&Xueliang Xiong（China） 86
Rituals and Routines:A Semiotic Inquiry Massimo Leone（Italy） 107
Cognitive Semiotics and Cognitive Linguistics&Hong Guo（China） 121
Philosophy and the Borders of Semiotics:from Aristotle to Husserl&Charalampos Magoulas（Greece） 136
The Occurrence of Thinking and Symbols&Xiaoying Dong（China） 144
Corporeality,Culture and Nonverbal Semiotics of Ethics and Etiquette&Grigory E.Kreydlin（Russia） 165
Part Three Special Section for Peircean Semiotics and the Philosophy of Inquiry 181
Introduction to Peircean Semiotics and the Philosophy of Inquiry&Charls Pearson（U.S.A.） 181
Theory of the Dialogical Sign&Charls Pearson（U.S.A.） 185
An Initial Encounter to the Semiotic Approach and Radical Inquiry of Charles Sanders Peirce&Jeff Carreira（U.S.A.） 205
A Rhematic Analysis of Instincts&Aaron Massecar（Canada） 211
Part Four Special Section for Tartu Semiotics 229
Introducing Tartu Semiotics for Chinese Semiosphere&Kalevi Kull（Estonia） 229
Identity,Creolisation and Cultural Semiotics&Peeter Torop（Estonia） 233
Semiotics for University:Semiosis Makes the World Locally Plural&Kalevi Kull＆Katre V？li（Estonia） 246
A Note on the Meaning of Jakob von Uexkiill's Heritage in Today's Tartu&Riin Magnus（Estonia） 273
Part Five Special Section for Cognitive Semiotics 281
CogSem Notes—Studies and Issues in Cognitive Semiotics&Per Aage Brandt（U.S.A.） 281