Synopsis Signification in Language and Culture includes papers presented during the International Symposium on Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions (with its impact on later developments in India and Europe) held at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, in September 2001. The first set of papers deals with the philosophy of language, the second set concentrates on signification in medieval India and the third set investigates the articulations of signification in image, space and time.