Chapter 1. Exploring discourse and creativity in Facebook creative writing by non-native speakers -- Chapter 2. Not just a pretty face: the cost of performative beauty and visual appeal in beauty pageants -- Chapter 3. Riddle of the sphinx revisited: self-referential twists to an ancient myth -- Chapter 4. Existential graphs and cognition -- Chapter 5. Framing in news discourse: the case of the Charlie Hebdo Attack -- Chapter 6. Meaning in the age of big data -- Chapter 7. Syntactic semantics and the proper treatment of computationalism -- Chapter 8. Signs conveying information: on the range of peirce's notion of propositions dicisigns -- Chapter 9. Neologisms: semiotic deconstruction of the new words "lizardy," "staycation," and "wannarexia" as Peircean indexes of culture -- Chapter 10. Math talk as discourse strategy -- Chapter 11. The reincarnation of the Aura: challenging originality with authenticity in plaster casts of lost sculptures -- Chapter 12. Orders of experience: the evolution of the landscape art-object.