Analyzes the terms "profession" and "professional" in general cases, and uses the results of the analysis to list the characteristics of professional wildlife and natural resource managers. (AL)

Discusses reading as a culturally conditioned and situationally sensitive activity. (FL)

Discusses sign motivation, in particular phonetic, morphological, and semantic motivation, and implications for translation loss. (AM)

Outlines Peirce's philosophy of rhetoric by examining his philosophy of signs and sketching his specific program for rhetoric as a general art for "rendering signs effective." Suggests that Peirce's work is part of a fully elaborated system of inquiry and signification. (JMF)

Analyses the iconography of five photographs used in advertising. (AM)

The conception of language as an abstract form, e.g., as an algebraic equation that can be described without reference to listeners or speakers, results in practical inconsistencies. A naturalistic appraisal suggests the need to go beyond form and appeal directly to the circumstances under which verbal activity occurs. (DJD)

This article discusses content schemata, formal schemata, and the newly-hypothesized abstract discourse schemata, asserting that empirical studies confirm that abstract schemata are more powerful owing to their greater generality than formal schemata, which in turn are superior to content schemata. (118 references) (MDM)

The objective reality (syntax) of the written text should be interpreted (semantically and pragmatically) in an intersubjective manner with regard to the context, the analyst's knowledge base, and the documentary objectives. The contributions of semiolinguistics (textual), logic (formal) and psychology (cognitive) are fundamental to the conduct of…

Outlines a theoretical perspective to account for how the writing that adults produce and use appears to get done, what it seems to be, and how it apparently functions in contemporary culture. Argues for a conceptualization of writing that is predicated on broader and more realistic understandings of text and writing than have generally informed…

Defines semiotics and outlines its implications for teaching language arts. (PRA)

Defines the scope of research concerning "inscriptions in painting" from a semiotic point of view. Shows that in cases from medieval pictograms to modern new concreteness inscriptions are used to subvert the pictorial content of art works. (RS)

Argues that Fernand Leger avoids the mimetic use of literary elements in order to subvert the conventions of the illustrated book and subordinates meaning to a graphic interplay where word and image can, on occasion, become interchangeable. States that Leger subverts the borderline between readable and nonreadable, lyric and painterly. (RS)

Notes that Jules Kirschenbaum, a modern American artist whose work integrates inscriptions and figurative painting, studied under the masters of abstract expressionism yet exhibited with protagonists of "magic realism." States that his later work took a wholly different turn--it became art about meaning and the "meaning of…