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The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and
linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between
linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.
The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and
linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between
linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.
Peirce's (1906) proposal that the universe as a whole, even if it
does not consist exclusively of signs, is yet everywhere perfused
with signs, is a thesis that better than any other sums up the life
and work of Thomas A. Sebeok, "inventor" of semiotics as we know it
today. Semiotics - the doctrine of signs - has a long and
intriguing history that extends back well beyond the last century,
two and a half millennia to Hippocrates of Cos. It ranges through
the teachings of Augustine, Scholastic philosophy, the work of
Peirce and Saussure. Yet a fully-fledged doctrine of signs, with
many horizons for the future, was the result of Sebeok's work in
the twentieth century. The massive influence of this work, as well
as Sebeok's convening of semiotic projects and encouragement of a
huge number of researchers globally, which, in turn, set in train
countless research projects, is difficult to document and has not
been assessed until now. This volume, using the testimonies of key
witnesses and participants in the semiotic project, offers a
picture of how Sebeok, through his development of knowledge of
endosemiotics, phytosemiotics, biosemiotics and sociosemiotics,
enabled semiotics in general to redraw the boundaries of science
and the humanities as well as nature and culture.
This book presents programmatic texts on biosemiotics, written
collectively by world leading scholars in the field (Deacon,
Emmeche, Favareau, Hoffmeyer, Kull, Markos, Pattee, Stjernfelt). In
addition, the book includes chapters which focus closely on
semiotic case studies (Bruni, Kotov, Maran, Neuman, Turovski).
According to the central thesis of biosemiotics, sign processes
characterise all living systems and the very nature of life, and
their diverse phenomena can be best explained via the dynamics and
typology of sign relations. The authors are therefore presenting a
deeper view on biological evolution, intentionality of organisms,
the role of communication in the living world and the nature of
sign systems -- all topics which are described in this volume. This
has important consequences on the methodology and epistemology of
biology and study of life phenomena in general, which the authors
aim to help the reader better understand.
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