Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: The ethical dimension as the I-other intrigue in human semiosis

Augusto Ponzio, Susan Petrilli and Susan Mancino

Part I: Alterity, Infunctionality and Semioethics

1. The right to infunctionality: The foundation of social relations outside the trap of identity

Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio

2. Experience, dialogue and ethics: Peircean reflections on dialogical ethics

Vincent Colapietro

3. Vico, common sense, communication: Recommendations for a semioethics program

Frank Nuessel

Part II: Relation and Communication as Orientation toward the Other

4. Relational logic and semioethics: A Peircean approach

Elize Bisanz

5. The voice as a hero of dialogue: Reading Bakhtin alongside Peirce

Deborah Eicher-Catt

6. Codes of conduct: Signs of moral memory as symbols of ethical eloquence

Richard L. Lanigan

7. Veneration of semioethical imagination: Wavering between the good and evil of De-sign

Farouk Y. Seif

Part III: Gifting, Caring and Semioethics

8. The gift of the unilateral gift: The epigenetic origins of semioethics

Genevieve Vaughan

9. A womanist ethic of care and semioethics: Shared ethical and moral expression

Annette D. Madlock

10. Semioethics as an axiology of care for the self-other: A Welbian geneology

Zoe Hurley

Part IV: Listening in Dialogic Relation

11. Dialogues with and about the past: Semioethics of remembering and forgetting

in a digital age

Susan Mancino

12. Semioethical Dimensions in leisure: Deepening Dialogic Capacities

Annette M. Holba

13. Semioethic Listening: Engagement in ‘the 15-minute City’

Ionut Untea

14. Linguistic Relativity: Semioethics and Climate Change Denialism

Marcel Danesi

Part V: Dialogue, Responsibility and Love

15. Powerful sacred signs: A semioethical approach to the laying on of hands in the sacrament of reconciliation

Fernando Lopez-Arias and Jordi Pujol

16. St. Catherine of Siena: Semioethics-responsive communication

Christina L. McDowell

17. Pope Francis’s Semioethical ‘Net’ Work: An approach for Dialogical Conversion

Christopher J. Oldenburg

Subject and Name Index