《符号与言谈(比较诗学的实践英文版)(精)》共五个部分，分为古代符号系统、关于汉字系统的符号学解释、文类符号研究示范、影响研究或接受研究、自然书写或文化书写：晚近符号学研究趋向五个部分，对符号、言谈与诗学的关系进行了深入探讨。

本书由张汉良著，作者台湾大学外文系毕业，比较文学博士，曾任《中外文学》月刊主编、台湾大学外文系及研究所博士班教授，现任复旦大学中文系特聘教授。

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part Ⅰ Ancient and Early Modern Sign Systems Studies

 Chapter 1 The Rise of Chinese Literary Theory: Intertextuality

 and System Mutations in Classical Texts

 Chapter 2 Controversy over Language: Towards Pre-Qin Semiotics

 Chapter 3 The Paradox of Learning and the Elenchos: Plato's Meno, Augustine's De Magistro, and Gongsun Long'sJianbailun (On Hardness and Whiteness)

 Chapter 4 Controvert the Dead: Sextus Empiricus and Plutarch against the Stoics

 Chapter 5 Between Nature and Culture: A Glimpse of the Biosemiotic World in Fourth Century BCE Chinese Philosophy

 Chapter 6 Intersubjectivity in Controversy: A Story from the Taoist Philosopher Zhuangzi

 Chapter 7 Plato and Peirce on Likeness and Semblance

 Chapter 8 Persuasion in the Pre-Qin China: The Great Debate Revisited

 Chapter 9 The Rise of Semiotics and the Liberal Arts: Reading Martianus Capella's The Marriage of Pkilology and Mercury

 Chapter 10 The Theorist as Visionary: Logoccntrism in "Medieval" Chinese and European Critical Discourse

Part Ⅱ Reflections on Chinese Writing System

 Chapter 11 Semiographics: A Peircian Approach to Chinese Script

 Chapter 12 Naming Animals in Chinese Writing

 Chapter 13 Ancient Chinese Concept offa (Law) and Its Orthographical Representations

 Chapter 14 Hallucinating the Other: Derridcan Fantasies of Chinese Script

 Chapter 15 The Legacy of JosefVachek and Its Implications in the Studies of Chinese Script

 Chapter 16 Graphemics and Novel Interpretation: The Case of Wang Wen-hsing

Part Ⅲ Genre Studies

 Chapter 17 Towards a Structural Generic Theory of Tang Stories

 Chapter 18 The Yang Lin Story Series: A Structural Analysis

 Chapter 19 The Anonymous Autobiographer: Roland Barthes / Shen Fu

 Chapter 20 A Lover's Discourse versus Story: Su Man-Shu's "The Broken Hairpin"

 Chapter 21 Mental Space Mapping in Classical Chinese Poetry: A Cognitive Approach

 Chapter 22 Calendar and Aphorism: A Generic Study of Carl Linnaeus's Fundamenta Botanica and Philosophia Botanica

 Chapter 23 Mimetic Desire / Dramatic Structure: Racine's Phaedra and Ma Chih-yiian's (Ma Zhiyuan) Han-huny, ch'iu (Hangongqiu)

 Chapter 24 Literary London: An Essay

Part Ⅳ Influence or Reception?

 Chapter 25 On the "Birth" of Historiography of Philosophy in China

 Chapter 26 Hu Shih and John Dewey: "Scientific Method"

 in the May Fourth Era -- China 1919 and After

 Chapter 27 Reflections on Cross-cultural Literary Contact: The Reception of American Critical Theory in Taiwan in the 1970s

 Chapter 28 Western Theory as "Colonial Discourse"? Or, (One More Time!) The Permanent Crisis of Comparative Literature

 Chapter 29 Perspective and Tertium Comparationis: The Case of Asian Literature

 Chapter 30 Image / Mirage of the Other: Contemporary Taiwanese Poets' Reception of French Surrealism

Part Ⅴ Nature / Culture Writing and Recent Advances in Sign Studies

 Chapter 31 Peirce and Cassirer on Deictics and "Pronominal" Communication

 Chapter 32 Encoding the Textual Sign in Natural History versus Natural System: The Case of Darwin and Linnaeus

 Chapter 33 IsJakob von Uexktill, the Founding Father of Biosemiotics, a Semiotician or Hermeneutician?

 Chapter 34 Is Language a Primary Modeling System? OnJuri Lotman's Concept of Semiospherc

 Chapter 35 Semioticians Make Strange Bedfellows, Or, Once Again: "Is Language a Primary Modeling System?"

 Chapter 36 Notes towards a Semiotics of Parasitism

 Chapter 37 Disaster Semiotics: An Alternative "Global Semiotics"?

Index