This collection an exploration of new approaches to semiotics and the human sciences includes essays by John Brigham Denis Brion Marcel Danesi John Deely Rolando Gaete Robert Ginsberg Bernard S. Jackson Roberta Kevelson Robin Paul Malloy William Pencak Paul Ryan W. T. Scott and H. O Donnell Thomas A. Sebeok and Willem Witteveen. Essays concentrate on law and justice in contemporary America (alternatives to courts judicial practice Simpson trial pornography) historical perspectives (Lex talionis the image of justice play song and revolution) and semiotic theory (selfhood grammar and perception).