1999

“Data and theory: the construction of prehistoric discourse.” Val Camonica Symposium 97. Bollettino del Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici, 31-32: 33-34.

“Le savoir sémiotique.” Degrès, 100 (c): 1-15. 

2000

“Can semiotics progress?” The American Journal of Semiotics 15/16: 7-26.

“Cocteau re-fondateur de mythes.” In Le siècle de Jean Cocteau, P. Caizergues and P.M. Héron (eds.) Montpellier: Université Paul-Valéry Press (160-166).

“Jean Cocteau, aruiwa shinwa no saisei [Cocteau re-fondateur de mythes]”. Gendai Shi Techo [Contemporary Poetry Journal], Tokyo (48-54).

“Steps toward evolutionary semiotics.” Semiotica 132, 3 / 4:  317-342 

2001

“Becoming a mask: Facial make-up and the transformation of identities.” In Rupa-Pratirupa: Mind, Man, and Mask, S.C. Malik (ed.). Delhi: Aryan Press / Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (71-80).

“The visual role of the sclera and the teeth in facial interactions.” In Oralité et Gestualité: interactions et comportements multimodaux dans la communication, C. Calvé, I. Guaitella, and S, Santi (eds.). Paris: L’Harmattan (160-166).

“On Signs, memes, and MEMS.” Sign System Studies 29, 2: 624-646.

“Incidents, accidents, failures: The representation of negative experiences in public entertainment.” In Erving Goffman: A Four-Volume Set, G. A. Fine and G.W.H. Smith (eds.). London: Sage [reprinted from Bouissac 1990].

2002

“Descrevendo gestos: Limites, escalas e perspectives.” De Signis 3; 21-36.

“La institucionazación de la semiótica: estrategias y tacticas.” In Nuevas Perspectives en Semiologia Literaria, J.G. Maestro (ed.). Madrid: Arco / Libros S. L. (103-124).

“Utopia Toshiteno Kigogakuriron [Semiotic theories as utopia].” In Utopia no Kigen, Keizo Miyasaka (ed.). Tokyo: Keio University Press (119-152).

2003

“Information, imitation, communication: An evolutionary perspective on the semiotics of gestures.” In Gestures: Meaning and Use, M. Rector, I. Poggi, and N. Trigo (eds.). Porto: Universidade Fernando Pessoa Press (13-26).

“Bounded semiotics: from utopian to evolutionary models of communication.” In Dynamics and Change in Organizations: Studies in Organizational Semiotics, R.J.J.M. Jorna and R.S. Cijsouw (eds.). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press (15-36).

2004

“How plausible is the motherese hypothesis?” Commentary to “Prelinguistic evolution in early hominins: Whence motherese?” by Dean Falk. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27: 491-541 (506-607). 

“Saussure legacy in semiotics.” In The Cambridge Companion to Saussure, Carol Sanders (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (240-260).

“Interspecific communication.” In Semiotics: A Handbook on the Sign-Theoretic Foundations of Nature and Culture, vol. 4, R. Posner, K. Robering and T.A. Sebeok (eds.). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter (3391-3396). 

“Sens de la main”. Degrès, vol. 118 (1-19).

Book: Strip-tease de Madame Bovary. Roman. Collection “Vertiges”. Ottawa: Les Editions L’Interligne.

2005

“Iconicity or iconization? Probing the dynamic interface between language and perception.” In Outside-In – Inside-Out: Iconicity in Language and Literature, vol. 4, Costantino Maeder, Olga Fischer, and William J. Herlofsky (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (15-37).

“Poetics in the lions’ den: the circus act as text.” In Folklore: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Four Volumes, vol. 4. Alan Dundes (ed.). London: Routledge. [Reprinted from Bouissac 1976].

2006

“Hoarding behaviour: a better evolutionary account of money psychology?”. Commentary to “Money as tool, money as drug: the biological psychology of a strong incentive” by Stephen E. G. Lee and Paul Welby. Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2006) 29, 161-209 (181-182).

“Probing prehistoric cultures: data, dates, and narratives”. Rock Art Research 23: 1 (89-96). 

“Introduction: gesture, ritual, and memory”. Gesture 6. 2 (171-176).

“Gesture in evolutionary perspective.”  Gesture 6. 2 (189-201). 

“Le beau métier”. Triage (129-135) [creative writing].

“The sociological and epistemological status of semiotics: an assessment and a program.” In New Theories and Concepts of Signs and Semiotics

Gu Jiatsu (ed.) Nanjing: Southern East University Press (407-434).

“The question of palaeolithic scripts”. In Exploring the Mind of the Ancient Man. Pedarappu Chenna Reddy (ed.). New Delhi: Research India Press (135-144).

2007

“Putting grammaticalization to the iconicity test: a cognitivist perspective.” In Insistent Images. Iconicity in Language and Literature. E. Tabakowska, C. Ljungberg and O. Fischer (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (17-35).

“L’écriture au défi: comment analyser un spectacle vivant.” Degrés, vol. 129 (a 1-22)

2008

 “The study of metaphor and gesture: a critique from the perspective of semiotics.” Metaphor and gesture. A. Cienki and C. Mueller (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (307-312)

“The archaeology of graphic signs: evolutionary and systemic approaches.” Pleistocene Palaeolart of the World. Proceedings of the XVth UISPP Congress (Lisbon, September 2006). R.G. Bednarik and D. Hodgston (eds.). British Archaeology Reports, International Series, Vol. 1804 (57-62).

“The evolution of priming in cognitive competencies: to what extent is analogical reasoning adaptive?” Commentary to “Analogy as Relational Priming: A developmental and computational perspective on the origins of a complex cognitive skill” by R. Leech, D. Mareschal, and R.P. Cooper. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, (2008) 31, 4 (380-381).

2009

“Semiotics as the science of memory.” Sign Systems Studies, vol. 35 (1-16). 

“Eroticon: l’iconicité renversée.” Degrés, Vol. 139/140, a (1-17).

2010

Book: Saussure: A Guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum International Publishing Group (152 pages).

Book: Semiotics at the Circus. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton (197 pages).

 “Expressive smiles or ‘leucosignals’?” Commentary to “The Simulation of Smiles (SIMS) model: Embodied simulation and the meaning of facial expression” by P.M. Niedenthal, M. Mermillod, M. Maringer, and U. Hess.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 33, 6 (436-437)

2011

“L’invisible et l’impensé du spectacle vivant.” In Performance et Savoirs. A. Helbo (ed.). Bruxelles: De Boek (105-115). 

 “Mangas unbound: understanding the cross-cultural diffusion of complex signs”. In The Locality and Universality of Media Geijutsu: beyond “Cool Japan”. Icomag 2011. Tokyo: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan. (43-50).

2012

Book: Circus as Multimodal Discourse: Performance, Meaning, and Ritual. London: Bloomsbury Academic (211 pages).

Translations of Saussure: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010) into Portuguese and into Japanese.

2013 

« The moral and legal status of animals : from perpetrators of wrongs to victims of abuses ». In Legal Rules, Moral Norms, and Democratic Principles. B. Wojciechowski, P.W. Juchacz, and C. M. Cern (eds.). Frankfurt : Peter Lang. (213-224).

 “La théorie des jeux permet-elle d’expliquer le spectacle vivant et les émotions qu’il suscite?” Interdiscipline et arts du spectacle vivant. A. Helbo, C. Bouko, et E. Verlinden (eds.). Paris: Honoré Champion (57-66).

“Space and Time as Cultural Artefacts: Blackpool as ‘heterotopy’ and ‘heterochrony’.” Place as Material Culture: Objects, Geographies, and the Construction of Time. D. Georghiu and G. Nash (eds.). Newcastle / Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (55-64).

“ Le système pronominal français: entre logique et affectivité.” Francontraste: L’affectivité et la subjectivité dans le langage. B. Pavelin Lesic (Ed.). Mons: CIPA (11-16). 

2015

Book : The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning : Rituals of transgression and the Theory of Laughter. London : Bloomsbury Academic (221 pages).

Book : How do We Imagine the Past ? On Metaphorical Thought, Experienciality, and Imagination in Archaeology (book co-edited with Dragos Gheoghiu). Cambridge Scholars Publishing (168 pages).

« The grounding of archaeological representation : from imagination to simulation. » In How We Imagine the Past ? On Metaphorical Thought, Experientiality, and Imagination in Archaeology, P. Bouissac and D. Gheorghiu (eds.). Newcastle / Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing (1-7). 

« Quand et pourquoi le spectateur rit-il ? » Degrès 161/162 (f1-10). 

2016

« Ethno-semiotics of a circus act : Mirko and his goats ». Punctum 2.2 (14-23).

2018

Book : The Meaning of the Circus : The Communicative Experience of Cult, Art, and Awe. London : Bloomsbury Academic (193 pages).

« Slapstick comedy : under what conditions can body movements be humorous ? » In The Languages of Humor : Verbal, Visual, and Physical Humor, Arie Sover (ed.). London : Bloomsbury Academic (227-237).

2019

Book (edited) : The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems. Amsterdam : John Benjamins (320 pages).

2020

« Pourquoi le spectateur rit-il ? » In Figures du clown sur scène, en piste et à l’écran, Philippe Goudard and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (eds.). Montpellier : Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée (401-411).

“The body in interaction”.  In International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, James Stanlaw (ed.). Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

2022

Book: The End of the Circus: Evolutionary Semiotics and Cultural Resilience. London: Bloomsbury Academic (240 pages).

“The specificity of the circus space: The paradox of stable circuses”. Theater Science Review 45. Circus Buildings in Europe. (21-33).

2023

Forthcoming

Book: The Semiotics of Performances: An Introduction to the Analysis, Interpretation, and Theory of the Performing Arts. London: Bloomsbury Academic 

Book (edited): Pronouns, Gender, Persons, and Society: A European Perspective.

(in progress)

« Fonctions sémiotiques de la musique dans les numéros de cirque. » In Musique et cirque : une relation féconde, Y. Nommick and P. Goudard (eds.). Montpellier : Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée.