The proceedings of the 8th annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, held in Snowbird, Utah, on October 6-9, 1983, includes 52 contributions in 16 subject areas including: Art and Architecture; Signs Systems in Combination; Peircean Semiotics: Applications and Developments; Neglected Figures in the History of Semiotic Inquiry; Semiotic Approaches to Literature and Criticism: Theory and Practice; Language and Communication; What Semiotics is Not; Semiotics and History; Semiotics and Religious Scriptures; Issues in the Philosophic Foundations of Semiotics; Oral Narrative and Ritual; Symposium on Legal Semiotics; Linguistics; Art, Film, Music; Semiotics and History; Semiotics and Religious Scriptures; Issues in the Philosophic Foundations of Semiotics; Oral Narrative and Ritual; and Symposium on Legal Semiotics. Co-published with the Semiotic Society of America.