Thomas A Sebeok

Global Semiotics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shiftduring the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to onethat encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how thisprogression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the fieldcovers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridgebetween the humanities and natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, catand horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough accountwill appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 167mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9780253339577
• ISBN-10: 025333957X
• Artikelnr.: 22109633

Autorenporträt

Thomas A. Sebeok

Inhaltsangabe

Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Global Semiotics
2. The Evolution of Semiosis
3. Biosemiotics: Its Roots, Proliferation, and Prospects
4. Galen in Medical Semiotics
5. Signs, Bridges, Origins
6. What Do We Know about the Signifying Behavior in the Domestic Cat (Felis
catus)?
7. "Give Me Another Horse"
8. Nonverbal Communication
9. Intersemiotics Transmutations: A Genre of Hybrid Jokes
10. "Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?": The Biosemiotic Self
11. The Cognitive Self and the Virtual Self
12. Some Reflections on Vico in Semiotics
13. Women in Semiotics
14. The Music of the Spheres
15. The Estonian Connection
16. My "Short Happy Life" in Finno-Ugric Studies
17. The Uralic Studies and English for Hungarians at Indiana University: A
Personal View
Notes
References
Index of Names