Origins of semiosis : sign evolution in nature and culture / edited by Winfried Noth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nöth, Winfried.

Series:

Approaches to semiotics ; 116.

Approaches to semiotics ; 116

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Evolution.

Language and languages--Origin.

Language and languages.

Communication--Philosophy.

Communication.

Physical Description:

ix, 509 p. : ill.

Edition:

Reprint 2011

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Introduction / Nöth, Winfried

PART I Evolution and biosemiosis

Breathing life into signs: Ways and means of semiosic transition and transformation / Anderson, Myrdene

Semiotic principles and systems: Biological foundations of semiotics / Figge, Udo L.

Opposition at the roots of semiosis / Nöth, Winfried

Primate nonverbal communication: Our communicative heritage / Preuschoft, Signe / Preuschoft, Holger

PART II Anthroposemiotic sociogenesis and cultural semiogenesis

The problem of certainty in human communication: An evolutionary view / Meyer, Peter

The culture of nature: The semiotic dimensions of microcosm, mesocosm, and macrocosm / Grzybek, Peter

Evolution of human semiosis and the reading of animal tracks / Hewes, Gordon W.

Analysis of a human releasing mechanism / Leyhausen, Paul / Pfleiderer, Jörg

Early social games reconsidered: Culture at play / Vogel, Susan

Infant semiosis / Trevarthen, Colwyn

PART III Glottogenesis: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and actogeny

Language and the origin of semiosis / Allott, Robin

Language evolution: A Darwinian process / Bichakjian, Bernard Η.

Deep reconstruction of languages and semantics / Shevoroshkin, Vitaly

Material time and formal time: Genetically and metagenetically / Harweg, Roland

The agent and the sentient: A dissymmetry in linguistic and cultural encoding / Ikegami, Yoshihiko

Language and brain / Schnelle, Helmut

INTERCHAPTER

Structure as idyll: The genesis of meaning in nature / Posner, Roland

PART IV Eikonogenesis and graphogenesis

Constants in 40,000 years of art / Anati, Emmanuel

Deixis vs. modeling in the phytogeny of artistic behavior / Bouissac, Paul

Children's drawings: Ontogenetic aspects and phylogenetic roots / Krampen, Martin

Can a picture tell a thousand words? Interpreting sequential vs. holistic graphic messages / Janney, Richard W. / Arndt, Horst

Writing, inscription, and text / Wienold, Götz

PART V Appendix

List of contributors

Index of names

Index of subjects

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

ISBN:

9783110877502

3110877503

OCLC:

979907147