Aim and Scope:              Transdisciplinary contributions to the analysis of sign processes and accompanying events from the
                                        perspective of the evolution of culture.
Modes of Publication:    Irregular intervals, circa 5 to 10 volumes per year. Monographs, collections of papers on topical
                                        issues, proceedings of colloquies etc.
General Editor:              Walter A. Koch (Bochum).
Advisory Editors:           Karl Eimermacher (Bochum), Udo L. Figge (Bochum).
Advisory Board:             Myrdene Anderson (West-Lafayette), Bernard Bichakjian (Nijmegen), Paul Bouissac (Toronto),
                                        Yoshihiko Ikegami (Tokyo), Vjaceslav Vs. Ivanov (Moscow), Rolf Kloepfer (Mannheim),
                                        You-Zheng Li (Beijing), Solomon Marcus (Bucharest), Winfried Nöth (Kassel),
                                        Irene Portis-Winner (Cambridge, Mass.), Roland Posner (Berlin),
                                        Thomas A. Sebeok (Bloomington), Vitaly Shevoroshkin (Ann Arbor),
                                        Vladimir N. Toporov (Moscow), Peter Wenzel (Aachen), Götz Wienold (Tokyo),
                                        Thomas G. Winner (Cambridge, Mass.).
 

• Vol. 1: YAMADA-BOCHYNEK, Yoriko, Haiku East and West: A Semiogenetic Approach. xiv + 591 pp., illus., pb DM 94.80 (5/85).

 
• Vol. 4: KOCH, Walter A. (ed.), Simple Forms: An Encyclopaedia of Simple Text-Types in Lore and Literature. 424 pp., pb DM 59.80 (7/94).

 
• Vol. 5: PORTIS-WINNER, Irene, Semiotics of Culture: "The Strange Intruder." 212 pp., pb DM 39.80 (7/94).

 
• Vol. 6: KOCH, Walter A., Evolutionary Cultural Semiotics. xxiii + 313 pp., illus., pb DM 59.80 (10/86).

 
• Vol. 7: KOCH, Walter A. (ed.), Culture and Semiotics. xviii + 179 pp., illus., pb DM 39.80 (7/89).

 
• Vol. 8: EIMERMACHER, Karl, GRZYBEK, Peter (eds.), Zeichen - Text - Kultur. 413 pp., pb DM 49.80 (2/92).

 
• Vol. 9: VOGEL, Susan, Humor: A Semiogenetic Approach. 384 pp., pb DM 69.80 (6/89).

 
• Vol. 10: KOCH, Walter A. (ed.), Semiotics in the Individual Sciences. 2 vols., 872 pp., pb DM 84.80 (6/90).

 
• Vol. 11: KOCH, Walter A. (ed.), Geneses of Language. Acta Colloquii. xvii + 444 pp., pb DM 69.80 (5/90).

 
• Vol. 14: KOCH, Walter A., The Biology of Literature. 288 pp., illus., pb DM 49.80 (7/93).

 
• Vol. 15: RÖHR, Heinz Markus, Writing: Its Evolution and Relation to Speech. 363 pp., pb DM 44.80 (11/94).

 
• Vol. 17: ARLANDI, Gian Franco (ed.), Music and Sciences. 411 pp., pb DM 74.80 (9/97).

 
• Vol. 18: KOCH, Walter A., Hodos and Kosmos: Ways Towards a Holistic Concept of Nature and Culture. 93 pp., illus., pb DM 29.80 (12/87).

 
• Vol. 20: SHEVOROSHKIN, Vitaly (ed.), Reconstructing Languages and Cultures. Abstracts and Materials from the First International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory in Ann Arbor, 8.-12. Nov. 1988. 2nd ed., 176 pp., pb DM 49.80 (6/89).

 
• Vol. 21: EIMERMACHER, Karl, GRZYBEK, Peter, WITTE, Georg (eds.), Issues in Slavic Literary and Cultural Theory. Studien zur Literatur- und Kulturtheorie in Osteuropa. 600 pp., pb DM 98.80 (11/89).

 
• Vol. 24: KOCH, Walter A., The Wells of Tears. A Bio-Semiotic Essay on the Roots of Horror, Comic, and Pathos. 87 pp., illus., pb DM 29.80 (3/89).

 
• Vol. 26: KAISER, Mark, Lexical Archaisms in Slavic: From Nostratic to Common Slavic. 151 pp., pb DM 39.80 (7/90).

 
• Vol. 27: FIGGE, Udo L. (ed.), Language in the Würm Glaciation. Acta colloquii. x + 197pp., illus., pb DM 59.80 (2/96).

 
• Vol. 28: KOCH, Walter A., Language in the Upper Pleistocene. 65 pp., illus., pb DM 24.80 (4/91).

 
• Vol. 29: FIGGE, Udo L. (ed.), Mosaik: Die Kultur und ihre Evolution in human-ethologischer und semiotischer Perspektive (Acta Colloquii). 217 pp., illus., pb DM 69.80 (3/95).

 
• Vol. 32: SHEVOROSHKIN, Vitaly (ed.), Dene-Sino-Caucasian Languages. Materials from the First International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Language and Prehistory, Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988. 264 pp., pb DM 49.80 (7/91).

 
• Vol. 33: SHEVOROSHKIN, Vitaly (ed.), Nostratic, Dene-Caucasian, Austric, and Amerind. Materials from the First International Symposium on Language and Prehistory. Ann Arbor, 8-12. November, 1988. 569 pp., pb DM 69.80 (2/93).

 
• Vol. 34: GRAVES, Charles, Proto-Religions in Central Asia. 223 pp., pb DM 44.80 (3/94).

 
• Vol. 35: SCHUHMACHER, Wilfried, FRANCISCO, Juan R., SETO, F., The Emergence of Homo sapiens and his Languages in Tropical Asia. Linguistic Evidence for a Hoabinhian Alternative to Engineer Anderson's Thesis. 93 pp., pb DM 29.80 (11/94).

 
• Vol. 36: KOCH, Walter A. The Roots of Literature. 256 pp., illus., pb DM 59.80 (12/93).

 
• Vol. 37: GRAVES, Charles, The Asian Origins of Amerindian Religions. 268 pp., pb DM 44.80 (10/95).

 
• Vol. 38: GRAVES, Charles, Old Eurasian and Amerindian Onomastics. viii + 254 pp., pb DM 59.80 (4/97).