Semiotica
Volume: 2009, Number: 175 (June 2009)

The above issue is now available online from Walter de Gruyter at:
http://www.reference-global.com/toc/semi/2009/175

Signification and space

Introduction: Signification and space
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos

Part 1. Spatial practices, spatial reification, and spatial experiences

Towards an anthropological theory of space and place
Setha M. Low

Spatial reification, or, collectively embodied amnesia, aphasia, and apraxia
Michael Landzelius

Spatial representation, activity, and meaning: Children's images of the
contemporary city
Kyriaki Tsoukala

The performance of secrecy: Domesticity and privacy in public spaces
Michael Herzfeld

Part 2. Physical space and symbolism

The choretic work of history
Augustin Berque

Art, land, and the gendering of Parnassus
Donald Preziosi

The semiotics of the Vitruvian city
Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos

Part 3. The semiotics of architectural and urban design

Space complexity and architectural conception: Revisiting Alberti's treatise
Albert Levy

Meaning of space and architecture of place
Pierre Pellegrino and Emmanuelle P. Jeanneret

Ship as a space locus, architecture as a space fabrica
Pierre Boudon

Organizational semiotics

Introduction: Organizational semiotics and social simulation
René J. Jorna

A conceptual linkage between cognitive architectures and social interaction
Kees Zoethout and Wander Jager

The semiotic actor: From signs to socially constructed meaning
Martin Helmhout, René J. Jorna, and Henk W. Gazendam

Information systems actability: Tracing the theoretical roots
Göran Goldkuhl

Norms-based simulation for personalized service provision
Rodrigo Bonacin, M. Cecília C. Baranauskas, Kecheng Liu, and Lily Sun

Universities as producers of evolutionarily stable signs of excellence for
academic labor markets?
Georg P. Mueller