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I. ACADEMIC
RECORD:
B.A. (1963)
M.A. (1966)
Ph.D. (1973)
II. FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Contemporary Spanish
American prose, Latin American culture and civilization, literary theory, semiotic
theory, Charles S. Peirce studies.
III. FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
1970-73 NDFL Fellowship (
1974 XL
Summer Grant (
1983 David
Ross Fellowship Grant (funds for Irene Hodges, for work on dissertation, funded
through her major professor).
1985 Fellow: Center for Humanistic Studies (
1989 Purdue
International Travel Grant.
1990 Fellow: Center for Humanistic Studies (
1994 Fellow: Center
for Humanistic Studies (
1995 PRF Grant
(funding for Lucero Tenorio-Gavin, for work on dissertation, funded through her
major professor).
1998 PRF Grant (funding for María Melgarejo, for work on
dissertation, funded through her major professor).
2003 PRF Grant (funding for Manuel Apodaca, for work on
dissertation, funded through his major professor).
2005 Appointed a Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow on behalf of the
membership of the Semiotic Society of America.
IV. ACADEMIC CAREER:
1963-65 Secondary school teacher of chemistry
and Spanish (Alta Loma,
1966-70 Secondary school teacher of chemistry
and physics (
1970 Summer appointment with the Agency
for International Development working with secondary school teachers of physics
in
1973-74 Visiting Assistant Professor (
1974-77 Assistant Professor (
1977-82 Associate
Professor (
1982- Professor (Purdue University).
1991-99 Member
of the Pontífica Universidade Católica de São Paulo
in the capacity as a Visiting Distinguished Professor (seminars usually
taught during the months of May and June).
2001-02 During May and June, taught graduate
seminars at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA),
2006 Appointed to an honorary position as advisor for
Post-Graduate students and Post-Doctoral fellows at the Federal University of
Bahia (UFBA),
2007 Appointed as a Visiting Distinguished Professor (for
the purpose occasionally of teaching mini-seminars) at the Federal University
of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil.
V. SPECIAL PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS AND
ACTIVITIES:
1978-82 Summer
courses on Latin American Culture and Civilization for NEH Summer Institute for secondary school teachers (
1982-83 Director: CIC Summer Program for Big Ten University
Spanish students at the
1992 Two month seminar on the Semiotics of C. S. Peirce
taught at the Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo,
1992 Three-day intensive seminar on semiotics taught at
the
1994 Two month
seminar on C. S. Peirce’s Semiotics and Chaos Theory taught at the Pontíficia
Universidade Católica de São Paulo,
1995 Three-day intensive seminar on the iconic sign taught
at the
1997 Four-day intensive seminar on
semiotics taught at the Universidade de Rio Grande do Sul,
1997- Editor: Purdue Studies in Romance Languages (a monograph series published with Purdue University Press).
1998 Week-long seminar on semiotics
at the Universidad del Zulia,
1998 Five-day intensive seminar on
the Peircean sign and graphic design at the
1997-98
Vice President: Semiotic Society
of
1999 May-June: a series of 3-day seminars given at the State
Universities of Ilhéus and Feira de Santana of Bahia, Brazil,
and at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador,
Brazil.
1998-99 President: Semiotic Society of
2000 Two month seminar on the Semiotics of C. S. Peirce
and body-mind interdependent interaction taught at the Federal University of
Bahia,
2000 Five-day intensive seminar at
the
2000 Intensive seminar at the Federal University of Bahia,
2001
Five day intensive
seminar on semiotics and the arts at the Instituto Nacional de Artes,
2002
Five day intensive
seminar on semiotics and cultural studies at the Federal University of
Brasilia,
2002 Five day intensive seminar at the
2002 Five
day intensive seminar at the Monterrey Institute of Technology in
2003 Three day intensive seminar at the Metropolitan University of Mexico, Mexico City, April.
2004 Three day intensive seminar at the Metropolitan University of Mexico, Mexico City, April.
2004 Three
day intensive seminar at XiqueXique, Bahia state,
2005 Three day intensive seminar at the National University of Mexico, Mexico City, November.
2007 An
English course taught as a volunteer to guides at the
2007 Three
day intensive seminar at the
2007 Director, University of Iowa 6-week Summer Program in language and cultural studies at Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in conjunction with ACBEU (Associação Cultural Bahia Estados Unidos).
2008 Three day intensive seminar at Salvador, Brazil with the Federal University of Bahia on Peirce and Culture.
2009 Three day intensive seminar at the Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, on the Mexican Revolution.
V. MEMBERSHIP TO PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS:
International Association
for Semiotic Studies, Semiotic Society of America, Toronto Semiotic Circle,
Canadian Semiotic Association, Asociación Vasca de Semiótica, American
Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Modern Language
Association, Asociacão Brasileira de
Semiótica, Asociación Latinoamericana de Semiótica.
VI. PUBLICATIONS:
A. BOOKS
Joint author with Raymon C. Anglin and Sev. D. Amaya, Guía de
laboratorio de física (San José, Costa Rica: Ministerio de Educación Pública, 1969).
Semiotic Foundations: Steps
Toward an Epistemology of Written Texts (Bloominton:
Indiana University Press, 1982).
Selected by Choice as an outstanding academic book of the year.
Pararealities: The Nature of Our
Fictions and How We Know Them (Amsterdam:
John Benjamins, 1983).
Deconstruction Reframed (West Lafayette:
Purdue University Press, 1985).
A Semiotic Theory of Texts (Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter, 1985).
Estructuralismo y proceso
estructurante (Berlin:
Kurt Reichenberger, 1990).
On Semiotic Modeling, ed. with Myrdene Anderson (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991).
Signs Becoming Signs: Our
Perfusive, Pervasive Universe (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1991).
Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis
Borges, Mathematics, and the “New Physics” (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1991).
Sign, Textuality, World (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).
Semiosis in the Postmodern Age (West Lafayette:
Purdue University Press, 1995).
Peirce’s Semiotics Now: A Primer (Toronto:
Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1995).
Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996).
Peirce,
Signs, and Meaning (Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1997).
Simplicity and
Complexity: Pondering Literature,
Science and Painting (Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1998).
Sensing Semiosis: Toward the Possibility of Complementary
Cultural “Logics” (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
Introducción
a la semiótica de C. S. Peirce (Maracaibo: Ediciones Astro Data, 1998).
Sobre las culturas y civilizaciones
latinoamericanas (a textbook for 3rd
and 4th year Spanish students)
(Lanham: University Press of America,
1999).
Tasking Textuality (
Change, Through Signs of Body, Mind, and Language (
Signs, Science, Self-Subsuming (Arti)Facts (
Signs for Everybody:
Or, Communication, Quandaries, and Chaos (
Living
Learning, Learning Living: Signs, East
and West (
The Mexicans: A Sense of Culture (
Sensing Corporeally:
Toward a Posthuman Understanding (
Complementing Latin American Borders (
Capoeira and Candomblé: Conformity and Resistance through Afro-Brazilian
Experience
(
Processing Cultural Meaning (
Viver Aprendendo: Cruzando Fronteiras e Pragmatizando Conhecimentos com Paulo Freire e Charles S. Peirce (Santa Maria, Brazil: Editora UNIJUI, 2008). (My translation from the English manuscript into the Portuguese; forthcoming in English with Atwood Publishing).
FORTHCOMING
LIVING LEARNING:
CROSSING BORDERS AND PRAGMATIZING KNOWING WITH PAULO FREIRE AND CHARLES
PEIRCE (
A translation into
Portuguese of Peirce’s Semiotics Now
(
IN PROGRESS
BORGES, PHYSICISTS, AND WORLDMAKING (a study of fabrications by the Argentine writer and some of the leading physicists during the early decades of the twentieth century).
B. JOURNAL EDITION
SEMIOTICA: Abduction:
Between Subjectivity and Objectivity 153 (1/4) (2005). Guest editors: João Queiroz and floyd merrell
C. BOOK CHAPTERS AND
CONTRIBUTIONS
“A Model of Narrative Analysis with Application to Rulfo’s ‘La Cuesta
de las Comadres’,” in The Analysis of Hispanic Texts, eds. M. A. Beck,
et al. (New York: Bilingual
Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 1976), 150-69.
“Structuralism and Beyond: A
Critique of Presuppositions,” in Frontiers in Semiotics, eds. F. E.
Kruse, J. Deely and B. Williams (Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1986), 120-39.
“An Uncertain Semiotic,” in The Current in Criticism, eds. V.
Lokke and C. Koelb (West Lafayette:
Purdue University Press, 1987), 243-64.
“Model, World, ‘Semiotic Reality’,” in On Semiotic Modeling
(Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991),
247-84.
“Introduction: Grounding Figures
and Figuring Grounds in Semiotic Modeling,” with M. Anderson, in On Semiotic
Modeling (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter,
1991), 1-17.
“Afterword: Filling and Emptying
Figures and Grounds in Art, Craft, and Science,” with M. Anderson, in On
Semiotic Modeling (Berlin: Mouton de
Gruyter, 1991), 595-99.
“Signs Grow, Life Goes On,” in The Semiotic Web 1991, eds. T. A.
Sebeok and J. Umiker-Sebeok (Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter, 1991), 251-81.
“Vagueness, Generality, and Undeciding Otherness,” in Peirce’s
Doctrine of Signs: Theory, Application,
and Conventions, V. M. Colapietro and T. M. Olshewsky (eds.), 33-43
(Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995).
“Putting the Body back in the Mind (Sign),” in Ensaios em homenagem
a (Essays Honor of) Thomas A. Sebeok, 95-107 (Oporto: Cruzeiro Semiótico, 1995).
“Fractopoi, Chaosmos, or Merely
Simplexity-Complicity?” in Systems:
New Paradigms for the Human Sciences, eds. G. Altmann and W. Koch,
623-45. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1998).
“Diagrammatism in the Interstices,” in a Interdigitations: Essays for Irmengard Rauch, eds. G. F.
Carr, W. Harbert and L. Zhang, 589-600. (Lanham: Peter Lang, 1999).
“Borges
y Calvino: ¿Caosmos desenmarañado? In Jorge Luis Borges: Pensamiento y saber en el siglo XX,” eds.
Alfonso and
Fernando de Toro, 189-222. (Berlin:
Vervuert, 1999).
“Some
Thoughts on Simplicity and Complexity by Way of Jorge Luis Borges, Italo
Calvino, and C. S. Peirce.” In El siglo de Borges. Volúmen
I: Retrospectiva - Presente -Futuro,
eds. Alfonso
and Fernando de Toro, 129-54. (Berlin: Vervuert, 1999).
“Neither
Matrix nor Redux but Reflux: Translation
from (Within) Semiosis,” in Athanor, ed.
“¿Qué hay entre naturaleza y cultura?
In Ensayos semióticos:
Dominios, modelos, miradas desde el cruce de la naturaleza y cultura,
ed. A.
Gimate-Welch (México: Porrúa, 2000).
“Semiotically Digesting
Dis/Ability,? with Myrdene Anderson. In Semiotics
and Dis/ability: Interrogating
Categories of Difference, ed. L. Rogers and B. B. Swadener, 267-72. (
“Quão ‘reais’ os signos podem se tornar?” in Interlab: laberintos do pensamento contemporâneo, ed. Lúcia Leão, 255-88. (
“Order and
Chaos, Simplicity and Complexity,” in Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity, ed.
H. Rowland, 1-16. (
“Capoeira Culture: An Impertinent Non-Western Art Form.” In Contemporary Latin American Cultural
Studies, S. Hart (ed.), 278-89. (London: Arnold, 2003).
“Abdução: uma
razão sem lógica do nosso tempo?” In Pragmática
e razão, L. P. Rouaner and W. da Silva Filho (eds.), 71-88. (São Paulo:
Unimarco, 2004).
“A Prática do Pragmatismo: aprender Vivendo, Vivir aprendendo.” In Filosofia e Educação: Confluências, 13-35, ed. A. L. Trevisan y
N. D. Rossatto. (Santa Maria:
Facos-UFSM, 2005).
“Lógica
e razão, diálogo aberto, tolerância e intolerância.” In Filosofia e educacão: Racionalidade a tolerância, ed. A. A. Fávero, C. A. Dalbosco, and T. Marcon,
55-93. (Santa Maria: Facos-UFSM, 2006).
“Jorge Luis Borges, and Early Quantum
Labyrinths.” Science, Literature, and
film in the Hispanic World, eds. J. Hoeg and K. S. Larsen, 49-74. (
“The Sign’s Significant Other.”
In La Filosofia del Linguaggio come
arte dell’ascolto (Philosophy of Language as the Art of Listening), a homage
to Augusto Ponzio, S. Petrilli (ed.), 91-104.
(
“La abducción de C. S. Peirce: Significado, vaguedad y generalidad.” In Lenguaje, significado y psicología,
ed. Zuraya Monroy Nasr and Pablo Fernández Christlieb, 3-22. (México:
UNAM, 2007).
“Charles
Peirce: Um signo antes do seu
tempo.” In Peirce e o pragmatismo contemporâeo,
ed. W. J. da Silva Filho, 54-67.
(Salvador: Universidade Federal
da Bahia, 2008).
“The Way of Peircean Signs.” In Approaches to Communication: Trends in Global Communication Studies,
“Borges:
Post- or Trans-Human?” In Cy-Borges: Memories of Posthumanism in the Work of Jorge
Luis Borges, I. Callus and
“Only an Image?”
In
“Charles S. Peirce, Jorge Luis Borges, y las
categorías en proceso.” In Coloquio
en semiótica, ed. A. Gimate-Welch. (México:
Porrúa, 44 ms pages).
“The Roots of Diagrammatic Thinking: From Zero to Paradiagrammadoxica.” In Os grafos existenciais
de C. S. Peirce, J. Queiroz and L. de Moraes (eds) (São Paulo: USP, 18 ms pages).
“Fearful (Dys)Symmetries: Borges and the Fourth Dimension.” In Modernism’s Fourth Dimensions, L.
D. Henderson and B. Clarke (eds.) (
“Learning Living Pragmatically?” In O qué é o pragmatismo?, P. Giraldelli (ed.) (Marília: University of Marília, Brazil, 28 ms pages).
“Argumentos
do coração” In Rorty, pragmatismo, e
violencia, P. Giraldelli (ed.) (Marília: University of Marília, 17 ms pages).
“Tom’s Often Neglected Other Theoretical Source.” In Semiotics Continues to Astonish, J.
Deely, ed.
“Conformity and Resistance as Cultural Process in Postmodern Globalizing
Times.” In Semiotics and
Postmodernism, R. Capozzi, ed.
“Las limitaciones
pragmático-semióticas de nuestro conocimiento.” In Charles Sanders Peirce, la semiótica, y
la epistemología, E. Sandoval, ed.
Mexico: UNAM.
C. ARTICLES AND PROCEEDINGS
“José Arcadio Buendía’s Scientific Paradigms: Man in Search of Himself,” LATIN AMERICAN
LITERARY REVIEW, No. 4 (1975), 59-70.
“The Ideal World in Search of its Reference: An Inquiry into the Underlying Nature of
Magical Realism,” CHASQUI, 4, No. 2 (1975), 5-17.
“La estructura de
‘Juan Girador’ de Miguel Angel Asturias,” HISPAMÉRICA, 3, No. 9 (1975), 21-33.
“Le structuralism et
au-delá: un examen critique des
presupposés du systémé,” DIOGENE, No. 92 (1975), 78-110. English edition:
“Structuralism and Beyond: A
Critique of Presuppositions,” DIOGENES, No. 92 (1975), 67-103. Translated into Japanese as part of a yearly
issue containing selections from DIOGENES; this issue includes, among others,
essays by Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roger Caillois.
“Fearful Paradoxes (Dissymmetries),” in FILM STUDIES
ANNUAL, eds. B. Lawton, et al. (West Lafayette:
Purdue Research Foundation, 1976), 52-73.
“Communication and Paradox in Carlos Fuentes’s The
Death of Artemio Cruz,” SEMIOTICA:
JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES, 18, No. 4
(1976), 339-60.
“Some Considerations of Bird Imagery in Rulfo’s Pedro
Páramo,” ROMANCE NOTES, 17, No. 3 (1977), 1-6.
“Carlos Fuentes and C. S. Peirce: At the Edge of Semiotic Activity,” PUNTO DE
CONTACTO/POINT OF CONTACT, l, No. 4 (1977), 69-77.
“Man and His Prisons: Evolving Patterns in José Revueltas’s
Narrative,” REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS, 11, No. 2 (1977), 233-50.
“Dialectic of Cosmologies in Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo,” ROMANIC
REVIEW, 68, No. 4 (1977), 287-99.
“Some Considerations of the Notion of Otherness in Octavio Paz’s Posdata,”
KENTUCKY ROMANCE QUARTERLY, 24, No. 2 (1977), 163-74.
“Death in the Final Scenes of Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo,” CHASQUI, 4,
No. 1 (1978), 331-41.
“Hacia una interpretación de
la novela histórica guatemalteca,” HISPANÓFILA, 22, No. 1 (1978), 71-84.
“Metaphor and Metonymy: A Key to
Narrative Analysis,” LANGUAGE AND STYLE, 11, No. 3 (1978), 146-63.
“Some Signs that Preceded their Times:
Or, Are We Really Ready for Peirce?” ARS SEMEIOTICA, 2, No. 2 (1979),
149-72.
“How We Perceive Texts,” DISPOSITIO, 3, Nos. 7/8 (1980), 167-73.
“Of Metaphor and Metonymy,” SEMIOTICA, 31, Nos. 3/4 (1980), 289-307.
“Understanding Fictions,” KODIKAS/CODE:
AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS, 2, No. 3 (1980), 235-48.
“Patterns of Exchange in Pedro Páramo,” ROMANCE NOTES, 21, No. 2
(l980), 132-37.
“On Understanding the ‘Logic’ of Understanding: A Reincarnation of some Peircean Thought,”
ARS SEMEIOTICA, 4, No. 1 (1981), 161-86.
“Entropología y La casa
verde: Vargas Llosa dialoga con un
mundo en degeneración,” REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPÁNICOS,” 16, No. l (1982),
103-13.
“Structuralism: The Limitations
of a ‘Science’,” PUNTO DE CONTACTO/POINT OF CONTACT, 3, Nos. 1/2 (1982), 59-69.
“Los de abajo, La feria, and the Notion of Space-Time
Categories,” HISPANÓFILA, 27, No. 1 (1983), 77-91.
“How General Should/Can Rhetoric Be?” PRE-TEXT, 4, No. 2 (l983),
139-62.
“Deconstruction Meets a Mathematician:
Metasemiotic Inquiry,” THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS, 2, No. 4
(1984), 125-52.
“Knowing Fictions,” SEMIOTICS 1984, ed. J. Deely (Lanham: University Press of America, 1985), 29-35.
“A Semiotic Model for the Perception of Texts,” SEMIOTICA, 57, Nos. 3/4
(1985), 289-316.
“When is True Real?, Or, Please Ignore this Title,” SEMIOTICS 1985, ed.
J. Deely (Lanham: University Press of
America, 1986), 37-44.
“Minimal Conditions for a Semiotic Theory of Texts,” SEMIOTICS 1985,
ed. J. Deely (Lanham: University Press
of America, 1986), 454-65.
“Of Position Papers, Paradigms, and Paradoxes,” SEMIOTICA, 65, Nos. 3/4
(1987), 191-223.
“Peirce, and Bohm’s Quantum Universe,” SEMIOTICS 1986 (Lanham: University Press of America, 1987), 434-43.
“Enduring On: Travails of
Textuality,” SEMIOTICA, 66, No. 4 (1987), 379-411.
“From the Other Side of the
“Uncommonplace Happenings:
Post-Tlatelolco Mexican Narrative,” LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH REVIEW, 15,
No. 3 (1988), 180-87.
“The Heyday of Master Narratives:
Reflections on Fly Bottles and Fallibilism,” SEMIOTICA, 72, Nos. 1/2
(1988), 125-57.
“Structure and Restructuration in Al filo
“Semiosis as a Basis for Modeling,” SEMIOTICS 1987, ed. J. Deely
(Lanham: University Press of America,
1988), 423-32.
“Borges’s Tropological Avatars,” LATIN AMERICAN LITERARY REVIEW, 16,
No. 32 (1988), 53-66.
“The Sign of Deceit,” SEMIOTICS 1988, ed. J. Deely (Lanham: University Press of America, 1989), 232-40.
“Justo Sierra y la educación
positivista en México,” HISPANÓFILA, 99 (1989), 1-21.
“Fiction, Fact, Phalanx, Phantasm,” DIACRITICS, 19, No. 1 (1989), 2-16.
“Teorías de interpretación,”
RELACIONES: REVISTA AL TEMA DEL HOMBRE,
67 (1989), 1-21.
“Signos de lo incierto,” RELACIONES: REVISTA AL TEMA DEL HOMBRE, 70 (1990), 4-16.
“La cifra laberíntica: Más allá del ‘boom’ en México,” REVISTA
IBEROAMERICANA 150 (1990), 49-61.
“Mundos variaveis,
modelizacoes semióticas,” FACE: JORNAL
BRASILEIRA DA SEMIOTICA, 3, No. 1 (1990), 29-44 (with M. Anderson).
“Web, Weave, or Fabric?” SEMIOTICA, 81, Nos. 1/2 (1990), 93-133.
“Superphaneroscopy or Hypersemiosis?” SEMIOTICS 1989, eds. J. Deely, K.
Haworth, T. Prewitt (Lanham: University
Press of America, 1990), 23-35 (with M. Anderson).
“Un-Quixotic Semiotic?”
SEMIOTICA, 86, Nos. 1/2 (1991), 137-49.
“Peirce, and the Saussurean Legacy,” FACE: JORNAL BRASILEIRA DA SEMIOTICA, Special No. 1
(1991), 161-90.
“Thought-Signs, Sign-Events,” SEMIOTICA, 87, Nos. 1/2 (1991), 1-58.
“Seeing a Film and Reading a Book:
A Comparison of Perceptual Modes,” DISPOSITIO, 15, No. 40 (1991),
141-50.
“Thought-Signs: Jungle or
Wasteland?” KODIKAS/CODE, 14, Nos. 3/4 (1991), 1-22.
“La
semiología-estructuralismo frente a la semiótica,” SEMIOSIS Nos. 26-29 (1991),
119-36.
“Semiotics and Literature,” INTERNATIONAL OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
LINGUISTICS, Vol. 3, ed. W. Bright (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1992), 408-12 (2nd edition with
expansion and revision of article, 2002, with William Frawley, editor).
“Peirce versus Saussure,”
RELACIONES: REVISTA AL TEMA DEL HOMBRE,
77 (1992), 4-12.
“La semiosis: cascada de significación,” SIGNA: REVISTA DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE
SEMIÓTICA, 1 (1992), 81-106.
“Shifting Worlds, Semiotic Modeling,” in SIGNS OF HUMANITY/L’HOMME ET
SES SIGNES, Vol. 1, ed. G. Deledalle (Berlin:
Mouton de Gruyter, 1992), 73-84 (with M. Anderson).
“Who Purloined Ariadne’s Thread?” SEMIOTICA,
95, Nos. 1/2 (1993), 107-39.
“Sobre signos, ‘realidades’,
y ficciones,” CUADERNOS GRITEX, Nos. 5/6 (1993), 11-29.
“Is Meaning Possible Within Indefinite Semiosis?” AMERICAN
JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS, 10, Nos. 3\4 (1993), 165-93.
“Carlos Fuentes y la nueva
narrativa (Del estructuralismo hacia la semiosis),” LITERAL, 4, No. 19 (1994),
13-20.
“On Bifurcating Semiosis:
Or, How to Stop Worrying about those Elusive Signs and Learn to Live
with Them,” SEMIOTICA, 99, Nos. 1/2 (1994), 101-25.
“Of Signs and Life,” SEMIOTICA, 101, Nos. 3/4 (1994), 175-240.
“Sign, Self, Semiosis: On
Our Blissful Unknowing Knowing,” SEMIOTIC BEHAVIOR, l, No. 1 (1994), 214-42.
“Is Prose By Any Other Name Still Prose?” SEMIOTICA 107 Nos. 3/4
(1995), 209-36.
“The Knowledge Sin(drome),” in SEMIOTICS 1993, R. S. Corrington and J.
Deely (eds.), 497-506 (Lanham: Peter Lang, 1995).
“How/Why is Simplicity Complex and Complexity Simple: A Dialogue,” in SEMIOTICS 1994, C. W. Spinks
and J. Deely (eds.), 181-97 (Lanham:
Peter Lang, 1995).
“Agonística paradigmática,” AD-VERSUS 12 (1995), 43-65.
“A Semiotic Analysis of Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Systems,” SEMIOTICA 107 Nos. 3/4 (1995), 209-36 (with G. Soto).
“Semiosis, ‘Science,’ Silver Linings: And Finally, Literature,” SEMIOTICA 108 Nos.
1/2 (1996), 99-127.
“Caos e Complexidade, Ordem
e Simplicidade.” BOLETIM DO III CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL LATINO-AMERICANO DE
SEMIÓTICA (1996), 2-3.
“Order and Chaos: Signs,
Science, Borges, Calvino.” FACE 5 No. 1 (1996), 45-71.
“From Semiotic Triangle to Tripod,” in SEMIOTICS
1995, C. W. Spinks and J. Deely (eds.), 55-64.
(Lanham: Peter Lang, 1996).
“The Writing of Forking Paths: Borges, Calvino and Postmodern Models of
Writing.” VARIACIONES BORGES 3
(1997), 56-68.
“Editorial: Whither Semiotics?”
in the SEMIOTIC REVIEW OF BOOKS 8, No. 1 (1997), 1-3.
“Why De We Need Peirce’s Whole Decalogue of Signs Anyway?” SEMIOTICA
114 (3/4) (1997), 193-286.
“Just Waiting (Or, Looking Back on the Lines of His Face),” VARIACIONES
BORGES 4 (1997), 100-16.
“The Hole in the System.” In Proceedings of the 1997 International
Conference on Intelligent Systems and Semiotics: A Learning Perspective. (Gaithersburg: NIST, 1997), 338-45.
“If Interpreters Interpret Interpretants Are Those
Interpreters, Themselves, Interpretants
Interpreting Interpreters?” CADERNOS DO CEECCS 3 (Sept. 1997), 1-14.
“Medios,
signos, mensajes: Un trío imposible,”
RELACIONES: REVISTA AL TEMA DEL HOMBRE (Mayo, 1997), 4-8.
“Entrevista: Floyd Merrell.” CENTRO DE ESTUDOS PEIRCEANOS (CEPE) (30
de Outubro, 1997), 77-79.
“Does the Life of Signs Yield a Meaningful
Universe?” SEMIOTICA 120 Nos. ¾ (1998),
311-42.
“Floyd Merrell’s Unlimited Semiosis: Beyond Peircean Law,” SEMIOTIC SCENE 24 No. 2 (1998), 1.
“Jorge
Luis Borges, C. S. Peirce, y un tiro de los dados: Signos de nuestros tiempos,” VARIACIONES BORGES 5 (1998), 67-85.
“¿Qué,
por fin, es el signo peirceano?” SIGNA 7 (1998), 255-76.
“Quantum and Intertextual Interconnectedness,”
INTERLAB: INTERSEMIOTIC STUDIES ON
HYPERMEDIA AND LABYRINTH 2, (1998), 1-18 (ONLINE: http://www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/interlab/indexi.htm).
“The ‘Logics’ of Semiosis: A World Gone Strange?” SEMIOTICA 121 (1/2) (1998), 133-65.
“The Trickster that Mistook Him/Herself for a
Mask,” AMERICAN JOURNAL OF
SEMIOTICS 14 (1/4) (1998), 144-56.
“¿Qué
hay entre cultura y naturaleza?” LA
SEMIÓTICA: INTERSECCIÓN ENTRE LA
NATURALEZA Y LA CULTURA (PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
SEMIOTIC STUDIES), ed. A. Gimate-Welsh (CD-Rom, 1999, 24 pages).
“Nicéforo Urbieta:
An Artist in Semio-Mania.” LA SEMIÓTICA:
INTERSECCIÓN ENTRE LA NATURALEZA
Y LA CULTURA (PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR
SEMIOTIC STUDIES), ed. A. Gimate-Welsh (CD-Rom, 1999, 10 pages).
“Semeiosis:
“Borges and Calvino:
Chaosmos Unleashed?” SEMIOSIS,
EVOLUTION, ENERGY, ed.
“Living Signs” SEMIOTICA 127 (1/4) (1999), 453-79.
“How ‘Real’ Can Signs Become?” INTERSEMIOTIC STUDIES
ON HYPERMEDIA AND LABYRINTHS 2 (1999) (ONLINE: http://www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/interlab/indexi.htm) (51 ms pages).
“The Travails of Writing-Reading, That is, of
Textuality.” INTERLAB: INTER-SEMIOTIC STUDIES ON HYPERMEDIA AND
LABYRINTH 2 (1999). (ONLINE: http://www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/interlab/indexi.htm) (32 ms pages).
“Signs, Simulacra, Ocularcentrism;
Signs, Language, Linguicentrism.”
INTERLAB: INTERSEMIOTIC STUDIES
ON HYPERMEDIA AND LABYRINTH 2 (1999).
(ONLINE: http://www.pucsp.br/~cos-puc/interlab/indexi.htm) (37 ms pages).
“This is Semiotics?” (2000). (ONLINE
[personal page]: http://flmc.fll.purdue.edu/Semiotics/index/html (14 ms pages) (also
translated into Mandarin at the same site).
“Abducting the Process of Abducting: An Impossible Dream?” (2000). (ONLINE:
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~wirth/) (29 ms pages).
“Semiotics and Literary Studies.” Electronic Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce”
(2000). (ONLINE: http://beta.zip.net/tr3s/peirce) (13 ms pages).
“Peirce’s Basic Classes of Signs in a
Somewhat Different Vein.” Electronic
Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce” (2000). (ONLINE: http://beta.zip.net/tr3s/peirce). (12 ms pages).
“Abducting Abduction.” Electronic Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce
(2000). (ONLINE: http://beta.zip.net/tr3s/peirce). (18 ms pages).
“C. S. Peirce’s
Semiotics: The Impossible Study of Semiosis?” Electronic Encyclopedia of Charles S. Peirce”
(2000). (ONLINE:
http://beta.zip.net/tr3s/peirce).
“Un encuentro dialógico
entre Peirce y el neo-pragmatismo. IDEAÇÃO No. 5 (2000), 49-74.
“Heterogeny Through Homogeny: Culture as Process” HETEROGENESIS 28 (2000),
15-32.
“Charles Sanders Peirce’s
Concept of the Sign.” THE ROUTLEDGE
COMPANION TO SEMIOTICS AND LINGUISTICS,
P. Cobley (ed.), 28-39.
“Baudrillard.” THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO SEMIOTICS AND
LINGUISTICS, P. Cobley (ed.), 159-60.
“Properly Minding the Sign.”
JOURNAL OF LITERARY SEMANTICS 30 (2001), 95-109.
“Distinctly Human Umwelt”
SEMIOTICA 134 (1/4) (2001), 229-262.
“Charles Peirce y sus
Signos.” SIGNOS EN ROTACIÓN (2001), 2/3,
20-30.
“Lotman’s Semiosphere,
Peirce’s Categories, and Cultural Form of Life.” SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES 29 (2) (2001), 385-415.
“Semiosic Undertows: The Mexican Scene and Signs of Our Times”
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS 17 (2)
(2001), 31-70.
“Unruly Photons: Or, Why Can’t Colors March to the Band of
Secondness?” SEMIOTICA 135 (1/4)
(2001), 7-18.
“Contextualizando la máxima pragmática
“Signs, Chaos, Life.” SEMIOTICA 138 (1/4) (2002), 43-94.
“Borges’s Realitiesies and Peirce’s Semiosis: Our World as FablesFactsFicion.” SEMIOTICA 140 (1/4) (2002), 117-40.
“Overdetermination, Underdetermination,
Indeterminacy” (2002). (Online: http://icdftp.cc.purdue.edu/~fmerrell) (38 ms pages).
“Semiology meets Semiotics: A Case of Lingering Linguicentrism?”
(2002). (Online: http://icdftp.cc.purdue.edu/~fmerrell) (33 ms pages).
“The ‘Real,’ What We (Think We) Know About It, and
Semiosic Bodymind Flows” (2002).
(Online: http://icdftp.cc.purdue.edu/~fmerrell) (35 ms pages).
“It Becomes a Matter of the Self and Its Others”
(2002). CONUNDRUM (Online: www.cyjack.com) (28 ms pages).
“Are We Condemned to Labyrinths? Words and Wisdom from Jorge Luis Borges, and
Others.” VS 90 (2003), 73-97.
“A Gut Reaction” (2003). (Online:
http://icdftp.cc.purdue.edu/~fmerrell) (28 ms pages).
“Exu:
Trickster by Default?”
TRICKSTER’S WAY (2003).
(Online: www.tricksters.org/TrixWay) (36 ms pages).
“Iúri
Lótman, C. S. Peirce, e semiose cultural.”
GALÁXIA: REVISTA TRANSDISCIPLINAR
DE COMUNICAÇÃO, SEMIÓTICA, CULTURA 5 (2003), 163-85.
“Depth Perception, Visual Images, Spacetime
Borders.” Proceedings of the Fourth
Internacional Conference of Visual Images. Seeing and Knowing: Memory, Action, Projection, editors, A.
Cid, C. Cruz, and E. Morán, 67-84.
México: Cátedra de Semiótica,
2003.
“Neither “True” nor “False” nor
Meaninglessness: Meditation on the
Pragmatics of Knowing Becoming.” PRAGMATISM AND AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY
(2003). (Online: www.filosofia.pro.br) (24 ms pages); reprinted
CONTEMPORARY PRAGMATISM (2004) 1 (1), 61-87.
“Living Signs in a Rigidly
Patterned World: How Healthy Can It
Be?” SEMIOTICA (2004) 147 (1/4), 107-34.
“Abduction is Never Alone.” SEMIOTICA (2004) 148 (1/4), 245-75. This article won the ‘Mouton d’Or’ for the outstanding article publish in the journal during the year 2004.
“Signs so
Constructed that They can Know Themselves.”
THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS 20 (1-4) (2004), 255-69.
“Abduction: Between Subjectivity
and Objectivity” (with Joao Queiroz).
SEMIOTICA (2005) 153 (1/4), 1-7.
“Shouldn’t We Be Surprised when We Are Not Surprised when We Are
Surprised?” SEMIOTICA (2005) 153 (1/4),
85-100.
“Cultures, Timespace, and the Border of Borders: Posing as a Theory of Semiosic
Processes” SEMIOTICA (2005) 154 (1/4),
287-353.
“Our unruly Signs, and How We Cope with Them” OPCION 21 (46), (2005),
55-78.
“Iconicity.” In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS, 2nd ed., vol. 5, K. Brown (ed.), 457-62 (2005). Elsevier:
“Reference: Semiotic
Theory.” In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LANGUAGE AND
LINGUISTICS, 2nd ed., vol. 10, K. Brown (ed.), 420-27 (2005). Elsevier:
“Abduction.” In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS, 2nd ed., vol. 1, K. Brown (ed.), 5-6 (2005). Elsevier:
“On Signing Translation,”
SEMIOTICA (2005) 157 (1/4), 539-70.
“Creation: Algorithmic, Organicist, or Emergent
Metaphorical Process?.” SEMIOTICA (2006)
161 (1/4), 119-46.
“Semiosis and
Pragmatism: Toward a Dynamic Concept of
Meaning (with Joao Queiroz).” SIGN
SYSTEMS STUDIES (2006) 34 (1), 37-64.
The 2005 Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow Address: “Chewing
Gum, Ambulating, and Signing, all at the Same Time: Or, The Magical Number Three.” THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS (2006), 22
(1/4), 1-27.
“On Peirce’s
Pragmatic Notion of Semiosis—A Contribution for the Design of Meaning
Machines.” BRAZILIAN NATIONAL RESEARCH
COUNCIL (CNPq). June, 2007, 1-19.
“Reason and
Religion: Irremediably Incompatible
Bedfellows?” Online, 2007: www.darmacafe.com
(27 ms pages).
“Why I Believe
Becoming Peircean is Preferable” SIGNS (2007), 1 (1), 1-32.
“Borges: Between Zero and Infinity.” JOURNAL OF ROMANCE STUDIES (2007) 7 (3),
87-101.
“Icon, Meaning,
and Abductive Inference”. SIGN SYSTEM
STUDIES (with João Queiroz) (2007) 35 (2), 15-31.
“Whiteness: It Is,… and It Ain’t,… or Is It?” ATHANOR (2007) 12 (10), 415-33.
“Processos semiósicos
culturais de pensamento e conhecimento: homogenia, hierogenia, heterogenia”
INTERFACE (2007) 6 16-38.
“Toward a Concept
of Pluralistic, Inter-relational Semiosis”.
SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES (2007) 35 (1/2), 9-70.
“Is the Semiosic
Sphere’s Center Everywhere and its Circumference Nowhere?” SEMIOTICA (2008) 169 (1/4), 269-300.
“Life before Matter, Possible Signification before Tangible Signs: Toward a Mediating View.” COSMOS AND HISTORY (2008) 4 (1), 99-112.
“Some Remarks on Bickhard and
Process Metaphysics,” with
“On Peirce’s Pragmatic Notion of Semiosis—A Contribution for the Design
of Meaning Machines,” with
“Borges e as categorias lógico-fenomenológicas de
Peirce,” with
“Lotman’s
Semiosphere, Peirce’s Signs, and Cultural Processes,” RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF
COMMUNICATION (2008), 1 (4), 372-400.
“Some Meditations on Cultural Borders: Or, Where Does Chaos Come From?” SEMIÓTICA E
CULTURA (forthcoming, 31 ms pages).
“Where’s Representation?” INFORMAÇÃO & COGNIÇÃO (21 ms pages).
“Depth Perception, Visual
Images, Spacetime Borders” OPCION (30 ms pages).
“La semiótica de la
pragmática; la pragmática de la semiótica.”
DESIGNIS
(17 ms pages).
“Meaning, Icons
and Abductive Inference” (with
“Cultural
Synethniquing: A Semiotic Approach in a
Different Key” INTERFACE (23 ms pages).
“On Terrorism,
Violence, and Responsibility: A Gut
Reaction” ATHANOR (32 ms pages).
“Pluralistic but
Vague, and Inter-relational but Uncertain, Meaning”. PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON ‘THEORIES OF MEANING’,
“Calvino, Borges, and Scientific Imagination.” OMETECA (36 MS PAGES).
“Sign, Mind, Time, Space:
Contradictory Complementary Coalescence.” SEMIOTICA (101 ms pages).
“Framing the Debate is More Than Mere Words.” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED SEMIOTICS
(28 ms pages).
“Moderating Bivalent Thinking with Peirce on/in Mind.” THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SEMIOTICS (54 ms
pages).
UNDER REVIEW
“Clarice Lispector: From a Process-Oriented View.” CHASQUI (29 ms pages).
“Translation as Contradictory Complementary Convergence: Language, Science, and Culture” (37 ms
pages).
IN PROGRESS:
“Chaosmic Semiosis: Or,
What We Already Knew Anyway.”
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