Yunhee Lee Intermedial narrative as communication media: Imagination, narrative, and selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective1 Introduction: Intermedial narrative as medium for intercommunication2 Communication according to Peirce3 Semiosic mediators: Imagination, metaphor, and narrative4 Esthetic experience and the first-person perspective5 Conclusion: Intermedial narrative for identifying selfhoodMariana Neț Icons of modernity in belle époque Bucharest1 Introduction2 The city of Bucharest and “the culture of impersonality”3 Belle Epoque Bucharest: Between “the gates of the Orient” and “the little Paris”4 Modernity and tradition as evoked in guidebooks5 The population6 A modern and Narcissist city7 Bucharest on postcards8 On boulevards9 Popular neighbourhoods10 ConclusionsDonna E. West Glimpses into Peircean event imaging: Episode-simulation as a scaffold for right-guessing1 Introduction2 The development of episodic thought3 Transitions to episode-building4 The emergence of episodes and autonoesis5 Advantages of perspectival diversity6 The contribution of Peirce’s ten-fold division of signs7 Index as facilitator of episodic thought8 ConclusionJuha Ojala Development of agency as semiotic empowerment: A Peircean analysis1 Introduction2 The phaneroscopic categories and inquiry3 The tenfold sign4 Agency and the sensorimotor agent5 Sensorimotor inquiry, habit, and learning6 From sensorimotor system to factual representation7 Apparent but false duality of processing8 Tool usage, soft facts, and agency9 Existence, mind, and inference10 A glimpse of agency and music11 To concludeJosé Enrique Finol On the corposphere: Body, eroticism and pornography1 Introduction: Erotic body / Pornographic body2 Body: Motion and rest3 Final remarksZdzisław Wąsik Natural and cultural layers in the discursive becoming of language as a semiotic system1 On the heteronomy of language and its autonomization in use and cognition2 Semiotic universals of language in animal and human communication3 Merging synchrony with diachrony in functional and evolutional descriptions of language4 The discursive becoming of language in the enunciative pragmatics of social communication