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This book represents the proceedings of the tenth annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America held in October of 1985. Contents: Semiotic Approaches to Issues in Philosophy; Theater and Film Semiotics; Semiotics of Perception and the Visual; Empirical Semiotics and Popular Culture; History of Semiotics; Semiotic Perspectives in Literature; Social Semiotics; Law, Rhetoric, Information...Texts; Session of the Charles S. Peirce Society; Peircean Semiotics; Semiotic Developments in Linguistics; Semiotic Developments in Music; Monsters in Architecture; and Narrative and the Middle Ages. Co-published with the Semiotic Society of America.