Intercommunication: Editors' comments
Intercommunication: Editors' comments

Summary/Abstract: The meaning of semiotics is to provide theoretical insights and to develop the means of analysis for the whole area where sign systems have a significance. This includes a vast region of our world, and a great part of scientific inquiry. Thus, the importance of this domain of knowledge cannot be changed by fashion, and whatever shifts may occur in popular words or fashionable research, this is no more than a further subject for research in sign systems. The current volume of Sign Systems Studies marks several noticeable events. The inside-outside communication of the Tartu school of semiotics has been (re)established in a mode which gives us the confidence for multilateral communication, and a responsibility in the continuation of the oldest regular publication in the field of semiotics, as established by Juri Lotman in 1964. The signs of this are, on one hand, the publi¬cation of New Tartu Semiotics (Bernard et al. 2000), and, on the other hand, the regularity of publication and the authorship of Sign Systems Studies. In addition to the series Tartu Semiotics Library (cf. Andrews 2000), since this spring, Dissertationes Semioticae Universitatis Tar-tuensis has been born. The formation of Finno-Ugric 'semiotic league' (Randviir & Voigt & Tarasti, this volume) is left as last, but this is not the least to mention.

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