1968 

(a) “Volumes sonores et volumes gestuels dans un numéro d’acrobatie” in Pratiques et langages gestuels, Algirdas-Julien Greimas (ed.) (Paris: Larousse), pp. 128-131.
[Reviewed in VS (Versus): Quaderni di Studi Semiotici, Vol. II, 1975, pp. 63-64.]

(b) “Descriptions des petits états réflexifs,” Les Cahiers du chemin, Vol. 2 (Paris: Gallimard), pp. 110-116.

1970 

(a) “The Circus as a Multi-media Language,” Language Sciences, No. 11, pp. 1-7.

(b) Les demoiselles (Paris: Editions de Minuit). Novel. 180 pages. [Reviewed in Le Monde, January 8, 1971. L’Express, December 28, 1970. The French Review, April 1972, pp. 898-899.]

1971 

(a) “Structure et signification des numéros d’acrobatie,” Revista de Lettras, Vol. 9, pp. 7-27.

(b) “Pour une sémiotique du cirque,” Semiotica, Vol. III, No. 2, pp. 92-120. [Reviewed in VS (Versus): Quaderni di Studi Semiotici, Vol. 11, 1975, pp. 64-65.]
(c) “Un traité d’acrobatie au XVIème siècle: Essai sur la paradigmatique des
modèles de la description,” Revue d’ethnologie française, Vol. I, No. 1, pp. 11-28.
(d) “Le statut sémiotique de l’affiche de cirque,” Semiotica, Vol. II, No. 4, pp. 354-364.
(e) “Poetics in the Lions’ Den: The Circus Act as a Text,” Modern Language Notes, Vol. 86, No. 6, pp. 845-857.
(f) “Analyse sémiotique et analyse littéraire,” Colloquium on Problems of Textual Analysis, University of Toronto, No. 20-21. (Montréal: Didier), pp. 51-61.
(g) “Cirque (Circus, Zirkus),” in La communication: Les Dictionnaires du Savoir Moderne, Abraham Moles (ed.) (Paris: Centre d’Etudes et de Promotion de la Lecture), pp. 89-95.

1972 

(a) “Clown Performances as Metasemiotic Texts,” Language Sciences, Vol.19, pp. 1-7.
(b) “Les avatars du clown: Transformations sémiotiques et parallélisme des systèmes,” Semiotica, Vol. V, No. 3, pp. 290-296.(c) “Pour une analyse ethnologique des `entrées’ de clowns: construction de l’objet et esquisse de la méthode,” Revue d’ethnologie française, Vol. I, No. 3/4, pp. 7-18.
(d) “What does the Little Finger Do? An Appraisal of Kinesics,” Semiotica, Vol. VI, No. 3, pp. 279-288. [Review article of Ray Birdwhistell’s Kinesics and Context.]
(e) “Myths vs. Rites: A Study of Wild Animal Displays in Circuses and Zoos, “Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. VI, No. 3, pp. 605-614.

1973 

(a) La Mesure des gestes: prolégomènes à une sémiotique gestuelle (The Hague: Mouton). 295 pages. [Reviewed in Revue belge de psychologie des sciences de l’éducation, No. 2, 1974, pp. 232-233. Information littéraire, Vol. I, 1975, p. 39. Orientamenti Pedagogici, No. 4, 1975, pp. x. Anthropos, Vol. 70, 1975, pp. 293-294. Semiotica, Vol. XV, No. 1, 1976, pp. 83-96. VS (Versus): Quaderni di Studi Semiotici, Vol. 11, May-August 1975, pp. 64-66.]

(b) “Perspectives ethnozoologiques: le statut symbolique de l’animal au cirque et au zoo,” Ethnologie française, Vol. II, No. 3-4, pp. 253-266.
(c) “On Jugglers and Magicians: Some Aspects of the Semantics of Circus Performances,” Journal of Symbolic Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 127-145.

1974 

(a) “Semiotics in Canada: A Selective Bibliography,” VS (Versus): Quaderni di Studi Semiotici, Vol. 8-9, pp. 33-40.

(b) “Circus Performances as Texts: A Matter of Poetic Competence,” Folklore Preprint Series, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Bloomington: Indiana University), 20 pages.

1976 

(a) “Circus Performances as Texts: A Matter of Poetic Competence,” Poetics, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 101-118. (same as 1974b)

(b) “La Discursivité non linguistique,” in L’Analyse du discours / Discourse Analysis, Pierre Léon and Henri Mitterand (eds.) (Montréal: Centre Educatif et Culturel), pp. 203-213.

(c) Circus and Culture, a Semiotic Approach (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 220 pages. Translated into Japanese by Shin-ichi Nakazawa (Tokyo: Serika Shobo, 1977). [Reviewed in Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 92, NO. 363, pp. 82-84.
Communication and Cognition, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 279-283. American Anthropologist, Vol. 80, No. 3, p. 685. Ethnologie française, Vol. VIII, No. 1, p. x. Performing Arts Journal, Vol. II, No. 2, p. 93. Semiotica, Vol. 32, No. 1/2, pp. 119-138.]
(d) “The Golden Legend of Semiotics,” Semiotica, Vol. XVII, No. 4, pp. 371-384. [Review article of Alain Rey’s Théories du signe et du sens.]

1977 

(a) Essays on the Semiotics of Non-sense, publication 1977, No. 3, Toronto Semiotic Circle. 37 pages. [Prepublication of 1977b, e; 1978a; 1982b.]

(b) “From Joseph Grimaldi to Charlie Cairoli: A Semiotic Approach to Humour,” in A Funny thing, Humour. Proceedings of the International Conference on Humour and Laughter, July 14-16, 1976, Antony Chapman and Hugh Foot (eds.) (London: Pergamon Press), pp. 115-118.

(c) “Semiotics and Spectacles: The Circus Institution and Representations,” in A Perfusion of Signs, Thomas Sebeok (ed.) (Bloomington: Indiana Univeristy Press), pp. 143-153.

(d) “Models for Comparing the Arts,” Language Sciences, Vol. 45, pp. 31-35.
(e) “Decoding Limericks: A Structuralist Approach,” Semiotica, Vol. XIX, No. 1/2, pp. 1-12.
(f) “Why Circus Horses have Feathers: The `Truth’ of Natural Objects,” in International Workshop on the Cognitive Viewpoint, Marc de Mey et al. (eds.) University of Ghent, pp. 46-52.
(g) “Un cas d’ethnographie sauvage: L’oeuvre de J. et M. Vesque,” Revue d’ethnologie française, Vol. VII, No. 2, pp. 111-120.
(h) Marthe et Juliette Vesque. Le cirque en France de la Belle Epoque à la fin de la deuxième guerre mondiale. Tomes I et II, 18 cahiers d’études iconographiques, catalogue analytique, 722 documents iconographiques. Paul Bouissac (ed.), Archives et documents, Institut d’Ethnologie. Micro-édition (Microfiche AOO 883 144).
(i) Review of Dean Jensen’s The Biggest, the Smallest, the Longest, the Shortest, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 60, No. 4, pp. 348-349.

1978 

(a) A Semiotic Approach to Nonsense: Clowns and Limericks,” in Sight, Sounds and Sense, Thomas Sebeok (ed.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press), pp. 244-263.
(b) “L’Amour ethnographe,” Préface to Le Cirque en images (J. et M. Vesque), Archives d’ethnologie française (Paris: Larose et Maisonneuve), pp. 19-27.
(c) “The Timeless Tools of Time: Circus Performances Revisited,” Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e di Linguistica, Università di Urbino. Working Papers and Pre-Publications, Numero 76 – serie F. 21 pages. [Translated into Japanese by Shin-ichi Nakazawa: “Jikan wo tori dasu Dogu (Sakasu no kigoron wo koete),” Shiso (Thought), No. 653 (Tokyo: Iwanami
Shoten), pp. 86-107.]

1979 

(a) “Semiotics and Surrealism,” Semiotica, Vol. 25, No. 1/2, pp. 45-58.
(b) “A Compass for Semiotics,” Ars Semiotica, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 203-221.
(c) “Opérations et opérateurs sémiotiques,” Etudes françaises, Vol. 15, No. 1-2, pp. 57-78.
(d) Review of James Lawler’s René Char, the Myth and the Poem, University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. XLVIII, No. 4, pp. 429-431.

1980 

(a) “The Concept of Semiotic Operation,” Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics, Vol. I, University of Toronto, pp. 42-46.

1981 

(a) “Behaviour in Context: In What Sense is a Circus Animal Performing?” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 364, pp. 18-26.
(b) “Sintassi e semantica del caos: un numero del clown Charlie Cairoli” in Carla Bianco e Maurizio Del Ninno (eds.) La Festa: Anthropologia e Semiotica (Firenze: Nuova Guarldi), pp. 16-26.
(c) “The Timeless Tools of Time: Circus Performances Revisited,” Communication and Cognition, Vol. 14, No. 2/3, pp. 132-152. [Revised version of 1978c.]
(d) “Persiflage de l’institution amoureuse: séduction et dérision dans l’entrée clownesque des `Rossignols’,” Anthropologie et Société, Vol. V, No. 3, pp. 35-45.

1982 

(a) “System vs Process in the Understanding of Performances,” in Ernst Hess- Lüttich (ed.), Multimedial Communication, Vol. II, (Tübingen: Narr), pp. 63-75.

(b) “The Meaning of Nonsense: Semiotic Analysis of Clown Performances and Limericks,” In Ino Rossi (ed.), The Logic of Culture: Advances in Structural Theory and Methods (Brooklyn: Bergin/Tavistock), pp. 199-213.
(c) “Figurative versus Objective Semiotics: An Epistemological Crossroads,”Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, John Deely and Margot Lenhard (eds.) (New York: Plenum), pp. 3-12.

1984 

(a) “Iconicity and Pertinence,” in Gary Shank (ed.), Empirical Paradigms in Semiotics, Toronto Semiotic Circle Prepublication Series 1984, No. 1, pp. 5-24.
(b) “La profanazione del sacro nei numeri dei clown,” Quaderni de anthropologia e semiotica, No. 2, pp. 1-20.

1985 

(a) “Neurosemiotics, a Definition,” RSSI, Vol. V, No. 3, pp. 323-325.
(b) “The Potential Role of Semiotics for the Advancement of Knowledge, RSSI, Vol. V, No. 4, pp. 339-346.
(c) Review of The Anthropology of World’s Fairs by Burton Benedict et al., American Anthropologist, Vol.. 87, No. 4, pp. 929-930.
(d) “A Program for Semiotics,” Semiotica, Vol. 53, pp. 1-5. (With Jean-Claude Gardin and Kenneth Foote.)
(e) Circus and Culture, 2nd edition (paperback). (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America). [Original publication 1976.]
(f) “La Pyramide et la roue: jeux formels et effets de sens dans les spectacles de cirque,” Anthropologica, Vol. 27, 1/2. pp. 101-121.

1986 

(a) “Tradition, Speculation and Cognition: A Prospective Investigation of Semiotic Terminology,” in Jonathan Evans (ed.), Semiotics and International Scholarship: Toward an International Language of Theory, (NATO ASI series).
(The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff), pp. 1-24.
(b) “Semiotics in Canada,” in Jean Umiker-Sebeok and Thomas Sebeok (eds.), The Semiotic Sphere, (New York: Plenum), pp. 59-98.
(c) “Iconicity and Pertinence” in Paul Bouissac, Michael Herzfeld and Roland Posner (eds.), Iconicity: Essays on the Nature of Culture (Tübingen: Stauffenburg), pp. 193-213. (same as 1984a)
(d) “Poèmes en marge: les limericks,” Anthropologie et Société, Ellen Coryn (ed.), Vol. X, No. 2, pp. 103-115.
(e) “Semiotics of the Circus,” Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Thomas Sebeok (gen.ed.), (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter), pp. 121-122.

1987 

(a) “The Marketing of Performance,” in Semiotics and Marketing, Jean Umiker-Sebeok (ed.), (Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter), pp. 391-406.
(b) “Semiotics in Canada, Part One,” in The Semiotic Web, 1986: An International Yearbook, Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok (eds.), (Berlin: Mouton-de Gruyter), pp. 191-251.
(c) Circo e Cultura (Palermo: Sellerio). Italian translation of 1976 (c), 1979 (c), 1982 (a). (199 pages).

1988 

(a)”Semiotics in Canada, Part Two,” in The Semiotic Web 1987: An International Yearbook, Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok (eds.), (Berlin: Mouton-De Gruyter), pp. 145-203.
(b) “Déchiffrons le visage des clowns,” Liaison, le magazine culturel de’Ontario français, juin 1988, pp. 29-30.

1989 

(a) “La lingua del Circo” (Intervista a cura di G. de Finis e A. Perri), Mond Operaio, 1989, 1/2, pp. 67-80.

(b) “The circus’s new golden age,” Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 58, Spring 1989, pp. 5-10.
(c) “Espace performatif et espace médiatisé : La déconstruction du spectacle de cirque dans les représentations télévisées,” Degrés, vol. 55, 1, pp. 1-21 (d).
(d) “What is a Human? Ecological Semiotics and the New Animism, “Semiotica. vol. 77, 4, pp. 57-77. [Review article of What’s an Animal, T. Ingold (ed.)]

1990 

(a) “L’institution de la sémiotique: stratégies et tactiques” Semiotica vol. 79-3/4, pp. 217-233.

(b) “Praxis and Semiosis: The Golden Legend Revisited” Semiotica vol. 79-3/4, pp. 289-306.

(c) “The Lesson of Durkheim”. Editorial. The Semiotic Review of Books 1.1 (p.1).
(d) “The Profanation of the Sacred in Circus Clown Performances,” By Means of Performance, Richard Schechner and Willa Appel (eds.) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). pp. 194-207.

(e) “Incidents, Accidents, Failures: The Representation of Negative Experience in Public Entertainment,” Beyond Goffmann, S.H. Riggins (ed.) (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter). pp.409-443.
(f) “Gaia no kigoron o mezashite” (Toward a semiotic theory of Gaia). Interview with Masao Yamoguchi. Trans. by Fumito Saito. HERUMESU 45 (9 May 1990) pp. 42-52.

1991 

(a) “Semiotics and the Gaia Hypothesis: toward the restructuring of Western Thought” Philosophy and the Future of Humanity Vol. 1 No 2 (April 1991). pp. 168-184.
(b) “The circus: a semiotic spectroscopy”. Semiotica. Vol. 85 – 3/4 pp. 189-199.
(c) “From calculus to language: the case of circus equine displays”. Semiotica. Vol. 85 – 3/4 pp. 291-317.
(d) “Ikonicznosc I Stosownosc”. Semiotyka dzis i wczoraj: Wybor tekstow [Semiotics Today and Yesterday. Selected Texts], ed. by Jerzy Pelc and Leon Koj, Ossolineum, Wroclaw 1991 (117-135).
(e) “El Espacio/El Lugar del Circo”. Morphé 5 (Julio- Diciembre 1991) (55-71).
(f) “Theatre, Signs and Society” The Semiotic Review of Books 2.2. pp 7-9.

1992 

(a) “Circus, Clowns and Culture”. The Philosophy of the Visual Arts, ed. by Philip Alperson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 582-591.

(b) “A Laughable Theory of Laughter”. High Quality 22. pp. 8-11.
(c) “Technological Innovations and Cultural Semiosis: the Ritualistic Appropriation of the Bicycle by the Circus”. Kultur-Evolution, Fallstudien und Synthese. M. Landsch, H. Karnowski and I. Bystrina (eds.) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. pp. 169-198.
(d) “Ecology of Street Performance”. The Drama Review 36.3. pp. 10-15.
(e) “The construction of ignorance and the evolution of knowledge”. University of Toronto Quarterly 61.4. pp. 460-472.
(f) “Lecture de l’image érotique: théorie d’une pratique” Cahiers de l’Institut de Linguistique et des Sciences du langage. Université de Lausanne. pp. 5-21.

1993 

(a) “Semiotisches Wettrüsten: Zur Evolution Artübergreifender Kommunikation”. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 15, 1-2 pp. 3-21.
(b) “Dialog oder Duett? Kind oder Parasit? Kommunikation oder Manipulation?” Zeitschrift für Semiotik 15, 1-2 pp. 77-83.
(c) “The Theater of Semiotics” The Semiotic Review of Books 4.2, pp. 10-12.
(d) “The Representation of Commonsense Knowledge: Semiotic modelling and artificial intelligence”. The Expert Sign: Semiotics of Culture, B. van Heusden, R. Jorna, L.J. Slikkerveer and G.J. van den Broek (eds.) (DSWO, Studies in Social Anthropology, University of Leiden) pp. 25-42.
(e) “Beyond Style: Steps towards a Semiotic Hypothesis”. Rock Art Studies: The Post-stylistic Era. M. Lorblanchet and P.G. Bahn (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Monograph 35, pp. 203-206.
(f) “Why Do Memes Die?” Semiotics 1992. J. Deely (ed.) Lanham: University Press of America. pp. 183-191.
(g) “Ecology of Semiotic Space: Competition, Exploitation, and the Evolution of Arbitrary Signs”. The American Journal of Semiotics 10. 3-4, pp. 143-163.

1994 

(a) “Information vs. Meaning: From Ecology as Semiotic Utopia to Cosmic Evolution as Entropy”. Life World, Sign World /Lebens-Welt, Zeichen-Welt. C. Dreyer et al. (eds.) Lüneburg: Jansen-Verlag, pp. 177-198.
(b) “Editorial: Memes Matter”. The Semiotic Review of Books 5.2, pp. 1-2.
(c) “Introduction: A Challenge for Semiotics”. Semiotica 100, 2-4 (special issue on “Prehistoric Signs”, P. Bouissac, ed.), pp. 99-107.
(d) “Art or Script? A falsifiable semiotic hypothesis”. Semiotica 100, 2-4, pp. 349-367.
(e) “Deixis vs. Modeling in the phylogeny of artistic behavior:. Origins of Semiosis. Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture. W. Nöth (ed.). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 405-418.

1995 

(a) “Syntactic Iconicity and Connectionist Models of Language and Cognition”. Syntactic Iconicity and Linguistic Freezes: The Human Dimension. M.E. Landsberg (ed.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 393-417.
(b) “The circus as a topos of European literature and art”. The Force of Vision. I, Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. E. Miner and H. Toru (eds.). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, pp. 447-454.

1996 

(a) “Semiotics on line.” Editorial. The Semiotic Review of Books, vol. 7. 3 (1).
(b) “Eclaircies de la parole.” Semiotica 112, 1-2 (special issue on “Christian Metzs”. L. Block de Behar, (ed.), pp. 49-50.
(c) “Recording Traditional Performances: The Challenge of Verbal Copy. “WARTA ATL III (November 1996), pp. 59-66.

1997 

(a) “Mimu de Bunka o Yomitoku” [The memetic Interpretation of Culture]. SEKAI vol. 7 (1997). Tokyo: Iwanami Publishers, pp. 226-237.

(b) “New Epistemological Perspective for the Archaeology of Writing. “Archaeology and Language, vol. 1. Eds. R. Blench and N. Spriggs. London: Routledge (pp. 53-62). 

(c) “Informaç-o versus Significaç-o: Da Ecologia como Utopia Semiotica à Evoluçao Cosmica como Entropia”. In Comunicaç-o na Era Pós-Moderna, M. Rector and E. Neiva (eds.). Petrópolis: Editora Vozes (pp. 65-81).

1998 

(a) “Space as Memory: Some Implications for the Semiotics of Space.” Culture-Sign-Space-Raum-Zeichen-Kultur. An International Conference on Semiotics of Space and Culture in Amsterdam. Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich, Jürgen E. Müller and Aart van Zoest (eds.). Tübingen: Gunter Narr (pp. 15-28).
(b) “The Semiotic Approach to Performing Arts: Theory and Method”. In Hi-Fives: A Trip to Semiotics. R. Kevelson (ed.). New York: Peter Lang (pp. 40-54).
(c) Encyclopedia of Semiotics. (Editor-in-chief and contributor.) New York: Oxford University Press.
(d) “Semiotics in the Post-academic Age”. (Translated into Japanese in Studia Semiotica Vol. 18, Pp. 25-45.
(e) “Can Semiotics Progress?” The American Journal of Semiotics. 15:1 (pp. 1-20).
(f) “Converging Parallels: Semiotics and Psychology in Evolutionary Perspective”. Theory and Psychology. 8:6 (pp.