1981

Comments and Recommendations on "Opzet woordenboek Spaans-Nederlands, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Spaans, Portugees en Iberoamerikaans Instituut 1980" [Report containing critical remarks concerning lexicographical/lexicological project in progress at Spanish, Portuguese, and Spanish-American Institute of University of Utrecht].

1984

Forskning i spansk: et eventyr. Report of the Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Council for Research in the Humanities, Section Romance Languages and their Literatures (1984): 27-32.

1986

Review of Robert E. Innis (ed.), Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology (=Advances in Semiotics) (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1985). Livstegn 1 (Febr 1986): 58-63.

1987

Semiotics in Norway: Signs of life on the fjords. Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok (eds), The Semiotic Web '86: An International Yearbook. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (1987): 253-265.

1987

Conference Report Second International Symposium of the Asociación Española de Semiótica "Lo teatral y lo cotidiano", University of Oviedo 1986. Livstegn 4-2 (1987): 306-309

1988

Referee's Report of The Translator's Turn, by Douglas Robinson. For Ms. submitted to The Johns Hopkins University Press. (Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991

1988

Referee's Report of articles submitted to Semiotica.

1988

Referee's Report of article submitted to Slovakia.

1988

Juntos, pero no revueltos. Epos: Revista de filología (Madrid: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) 4 (1988): 485-487 [Review of Antonio Gala, "Los verdes campos del Edén" y "El cementerio de los pájaros", José Romera Castillo (ed.) (=Clásicos Plaza y Janés 52; Biblioteca Crítica de Autores Espanoles). Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1986].

1989

Dos textos de Antonio Gala: juntos, pero no revueltos. Insula 505 (enero 1989): 26 [Slightly revised version of nr. 9]

1990

Conference Report Third International Symposium of the Asociación Andaluza de Semiótica, University of Granada 1989. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 12-1/2 (1990): 155-157

1991

Conference Report Congress of the Association Internationale de Sémiotique de l'Espace "Culture architecturale, culture urbaine", University of Geneva 1990. Zeitschrift für Semiotik (Berlin) 13-1/2 (1991): 181-183.

1991

Conference Report Congress of the Semiotic Society of the Netherlands "Beeld & Text / Image & Text", University of Maastricht 1991. Semiotische Berichte 15-3 (1991):313-317.

1991

Referee's Report of article submitted to Poetics Today.

1991

(Report with Claus Huitfeldt and Alois Pichler, Wittgenstein Archives, University of Bergen). Das Wittgenstein-Archiv der Universitat Bergen. Semiotische Berichte 1 (1991): 89-91.

1991

Wat is semiotiek? [Institute of Philosophy, University of Maastricht].

1992

Conference Report Fourth Twente Workshop on "Language Technology", University of Twente at Enschede 1992. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 14-4 (1992): 460-461.

1993

Personal (P)References. [Invited contribution Thomas A. Sebeok for Semiotica 100 [Jubilee number].

1993

Nieuwe gids voor de semiotische Toren van Babel [New Guide for the Semiotic Tower of Babel]. Sein 7 (1993): 1-4,7-8. [Review of Vincent M. Colapietro, Glossary of Semiotics (=Glossary for Research, Reading, and Writing). New York: Paragon House, 1993]

1994

(with Gerard J. van den Broek) Over dolfijnen, linguïstiek en biosemiotiek: Vital Signs van Thomas A. Sebeok [On Dolphins, Linguistics, and Biosemiotics: Vital Signs from Thomas A. Sebeok]. Sein 8 (1994):1-4. [Interview with Thomas A. Sebeok]

1994

Een wonderkind of een total loss [A child prodigy or a total loss]. Sein 9 (1994):5-9. [Review of Joseph Brent, Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993]

1994

Theatrale tekens [Theatrical Signs]. Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of the Netherlands on "Theater Semiotics", University of Leiden 1993. Sein 8 (1994): 4-6, and Zeitschrift für Semiotik 16-1/2 (1994): 178-179.

1997

Review of Winfried Nöth, Handbook of Semiotics (=Advances in Semiotics) (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995[1990]). Journal of Pragmatics 27 (1997): 538-542.

1997

(with Adrián Gimate-Welsh, Mexico, et alii) (eds) Congress Abstracts Volume La semiótica, intersección entre la naturaleza y la cultura * Semiotics Bridging Nature and Culture * La sémiotique: carrefour de la nature et de la nature, 6th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS), Guadalajara (1997). Codified book-length procedure for editing and reviewing conference papers: 241 pp.

1997

(with Arjan van Baest, University of Tilburg) Review of Klaus Kaindl, Die Oper als Textgestalt: Perspektiven einer interdisziplinären Übersetzungswissenschaft (=Studien zur Translation, 2) (Tübingen: Stauffenberg/Brigitte Narr, 1995). Target 9:2 (1997): 377-381.

1998

(with Louise W. Rayar) Review of Marshall Morris (ed.), Translation and the Law (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1995). Target 10:1 (1998): 178-182.

1999

(with Louise W. Rayar, University of Maastricht) Review of Susan Šarcevic, New Approach to Legal Translation. (The Hague, London, and Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997). Target 11:2 (1999): 383-388.

1999

Congress Abstracts Volume Sign Processes in Complex Systems - Sémioses dans les systèmes complexes - Significación en sistemas complejos - Zeichenprozesse in komplexen Systemen, 7th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS), Dresden (1999). Codified book-length procedure for editing and reviewing 600 conference papers: 407 pp.

1999

(with Jeff Bernard & Gloria Withalm) Einleitende Bemerkungen zu den Akten des Wiener Semiotischen Ateliers. S: European Journal for Semiotic Studies (Special issue: Sex and the Meaning of Life - Life and the Meaning of Sex): 23/1-4 (1999): 5-11.

2000

Review of Cay Dollerup, Tales and Translations: The Grimm Tales from Pan-Germanic Narratives to Shared International Fairytales (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1999). Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 8:1 (2000): 67-69.

2001 - present

Reader's Report of articles submitted to American Book Review, Symploke, Sign System Studies

2001 - present

Referee's Report of articles submitted to Target

2001

Veni, vidi, vici. Foreword in Pirjo Kukkonen and Ritva Hartama Heinonen (eds). Mission, Visions, Strategies, and Values. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press: 11-13.

2002

Review of Peter Sandrini (ed.), Übersetzen von Rechtstexten (Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 1999). Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 10:1 (2002): 72-75.

2002

Theosemiotics : Report of Johannes A. van der Ven, Jaco S. Dreyer & Hendrik J. Pieterse, Godsbeelden en mensenrechten. Tijdschrift voor Theologie 41 (2002): 280-305.

2002

Review of Umberto Eco, Experiences in Translation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000). Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 10:2 (2002): 151-152.

2003

(with Heidi Heikkinen, University of Helsinki) Review of Zoé De Linde & Neil Kay, The Semiotics of Subtitling (Manchester: St. Jerome, 1999). Target 15:1 (2003): 193-195.

2004

Review of Eugene A. Nida, Fascinated by Languages (Amsterdam and Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2003). Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 12:3 (2004): 230-233.

2004

Review of John Sallis, On Translation (Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002). Target 16:1 (2004): 166-169.

2004

Referee's Report of article submitted to Cognitive Systems

2004

Referee's Report of article submitted to the Editorial Committee Proceedings European Society for Translation Studies (EST) in Lisbon 2004.

2005

Review of Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen, Ugly Ducklings? Studies in the English Translations of Hans Christian Andersen's Tales and Stories (=Studies in Scandinavian Langues and Literatures, 64) (Odense, University of Southern Denmark, 2004). Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 13:1 (2005): 74-76.

2006

Review of R. Marshall (ed.), La traduction des livrets : Aspects théoretiques, historiques et pragmatique (=Collection Musique/Ecritures) (Paris: Presses Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2004) Target 18:1 (2006): 191-195.

2008

Bending Back and Breaking. Review of Mary Ann Caws, Surprised in Translation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006) Symplokē 15-1/4 (2007): 341-352

2008

A Semiotic Web. Review of Marcel Danesi, The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007) American Book Review 29-4 (2008): 14-15.

2008

Tuning the Word. Review of Heath Lees, Mallarmé and Wagner: Music and Poetic Language (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007) in American Book Review 29-5 (2008): 24-25.

2008 - present

Referee's Report of articles submitted to Translation Studies

2008

Wittgenstein's Utopia. Review of Michael Nedo, Guy Moreton, and Alec Finlay, Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where You Are Not (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2005) in American Book Review 29-6 (2008): 10-11.

2008

(and further years) Referee's Report of article submitted to META: Translator's Journal / Journal des traducteurs

2009

Anti-Babel. Review of Daniel Heller-Roazen, Echolalias: On The Forgetting Of Language (New York: Zone Books, 2008) in American Book Review 30-2 (2009): 20-21.

2009

Translation and Overtranslation. Review of Françoise Sagan, That Mad Ache (trans. Douglas Hofstadter) with essay by Douglas Hofstadter, "Translator, Trader: An Essay on the Pleasantly Pervasive Paradoxes of Translation" (New York: Basic Books, 2009) in American Book Review 30-5 (2009): 21-22.

2009

Justifying Justice – Ricoeur’s Words of Wisdom. Review of Paul Ricoeur, Reflections on the Just (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007) in Symploke 16-1/2: 293-298

2009

Reader's Report of book submitted to Mouton de Gruyter (Berlin)

2009

A Big Red Cross. Review of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings (New York: Harper Perennial, 2009) in American Book Review 30-6 (2009): 15.

2010

Greenlandic Armageddon. Review of Bernard du Boucheron, The Voyage of the Short Serpent (trans. Hester Velmans) (Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2009) in American Book Review 31-2 (2010): 14-15

2010

Culture as Dynamite. Review of Juri Lotman, Culture and Explosion (ed. Marina Grishakova, trans. Wilma Clark) (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2009) in American Book Review 31-4 (2010): 27.

2010

(with Morten Tønnesenn, Stavanger/Tartu) Da Lotman og semiotikken kom til Norge in Estland og Norge i fortid og nåtid (=Norsk-estisk forening 25 år). Oslo: Norsk-estisk forening, 2010: 258-259.

2010

Homecoming. Review of Lois Lowry, Crow Call (New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2009) in American Book Review 31-6 (2010): 26-27.

2011

Word, Image, Sound. Review of Stephanie A. Glaser (ed.), Media Inter Media: Essays in Honor of Claus Clüver (Amsterdam and New York, NY: Rodopi, 2009) in American Book Review 32-3 (2011): 29.

2011

Religious Skeptic. Review of Tim Labron, Wittgenstein and Theology (Londen and New York: T&T Clark, 2009) in Symploke 18-1/2: 305-308.

2011

Festschrift article in Meetings with Solomon Marcus, Lavinia Spandonide and Gheorghe Paun (eds.) (=Colectia Distinguo). 2 vols. Bucharest: Editura Spandugino. Vol. 1: 753-754.

2011

Orientalized Kitsch. Review of Nasser Al-Taee, Representations of the Orient in Western Music: Violence and Sensuality (Farmham, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011) in American Book Review 32 (6): 21-22.

2012

The 68 T's for Roland Posner: Symbolizing Transition as Translation in 68 Signs for Roland Posner: A Semiotic Mosaic, Ellen Fricke and Maarten Voss (eds.). Tübingen: Stauffenberg Verlag, 243-245.