On Semiotic Modeling / Floyd Merrell, Myrdene Anderson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Myrdene, editor.

Merrell, Floyd, editor.

Series:

Approaches to semiotics ; 97.

Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 97

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (626 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Grounding figures and figuring grounds in semiotic modeling / Anderson, Myrdene / Μerrell, Floyd

Part A. Issues of culture

Structural differences in intentional action between humans and chimpanzees - and their implications for theories of handedness and bipedalism / Reynolds, Peter C.

'Venuses', turtles, and other hand-held cosmic models / Hagens, Bethe

Toys in engineering history: The role of scale models and miniaturization techniques / Foley, Vernard

Maps, territories and mandalas: The spirit of place / Painter, An

Notational systems: The interaction of model and content / Ramadhyani, Rachel B.

Part Β. Issues for science

Code-duality and the semiotics of nature / Hoffmeyer, Jesper / Emmeche, Claus

The use and misuse of metaphor in biology: Studies of the semantics of molecular evolution / Levinthal, Mark

Kali theory / Salthe, Stanley Ν.

The conduct of artificial life: A quest for artificial death? / Anderson, Myrdene

Worlds and signs: Explicate and implicate order / Koch, Walter A.

Model, world, semiotic reality / Merrell, Floyd

Semiotics and control systems: Toward a non-classical model of communication / Beaugrande, Robert de

Part C. Issues in language and literature

In what sense is language a 'primary modeling system'? / Sebeok, Thomas A.

On the semiotic status of written language / Pazukhin, Rostislav

(Re)modeling the letter: Literacy and literature at the intersection of semiotics and literary studies / Mignolo, Walter D.

The logic of autobiography / Baer, Eugen

A semiotic model of conjecture / Bunn, James H.

Part D. Issues of semiosis

A Peircean classification of models / Houser, Nathan

Diagrammatic thinking and the portraiture of thought / Spinks, C. W.

Peirce, iconicity, and the geometry of logic / Zellweger, Shea

'A Sign of itself' / Ryan, Paul

Modeling anthroposemiosis / Deely, John

Afterword

Filling and emptying figures and grounds in art, craft, and science / Anderson, Myrdene / Μerrell, Floyd

List of contributors

Index

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110849875

3110849879

OCLC:

643802212