Editorial

Dean MacCannell, Juliet Flower MacCannell

3-5

Indexicality

Thomas Sebeok

7-28

The true meaning of Christmases past

masks of verisimilitude in rural autobiography

Beverly Seaton

29-39

Sign, text, and criticism as elements of anthroposemiosis

John Deely

41-81

Ownership at issue

Tuareg myths of separation and metaphors of manipulation

Susan Rasmussen

83-108

Doth apparel the symbol make?

a semiotic investigation of symbolic references to dress in selected plays of William Shakespeare

Alan C. Harris, Nancy J. Owens

109-130

Merlin and myth

Peter Salus

131-147