The Semiotic Web 1991: Biosemiotics / / ed. by Jean Umiker-Sebeok, Thomas A. Sebeok.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Myrdene,; Baer, Eugen,; Csányi, Vilmos,; Deely, John,; Emmeche, Claus,; Hasan, Jeddi,; Heiskanen, Tuula,; Hoffmeyer, Jesper,; Igamberdiev, A. U.,; Kergosien, Y. L.,; Koch, Walter A.,; Krampen, Martin,; Kretzschmar, Richard,; Kull, Kalevi,; Leino, Päivi,; Merrell, Floyd,; Ots, Thomas,; Schonauer, Klaus,; Schult, Joachim,; Sebeok, Thomas A.,; Sharov, Alexei A.,; Sonea, Sorin,; Stafford, Philip B.,; Stjernfelt, Frederik,; Uexkiill, Thure von,; Vance Staiano, Kathryn,; Yates, F. Eugene,; Young, Evan P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Sebeok, Thomas A.,; Umiker-Sebeok, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: Reprint 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 106
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 498 p.) :; Num. figs.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Concerning Gaia—Semiosic Production of/in/by/for Our Planet
• Editing the Text of a Disease: Semiotic and Ethical Aspects of Therapeutic Genetic Engineering
• The Brain's Models and Communication
• Semiotics and Biosemiotics: Are Sign-Science and Life-Science Coextensive?
• Modeling Life: A Note on the Semiotics of Emergence and Computation in Artificial and Natural Living Systems
• Some Semiotic Aspects of the Psycho-Physical Relation: The Endo-Exosemiotic Boundary
• Organization of Biosystems: A Semiotic Approach
• Nature Semiotics: The Icons of Nature
• Ecogenesis and Echogenesis: Some Problems for Biosemiotics
• Phytosemiotics Revisited
• Evolution and Semiotics
• On the Specificity of Musculoskeletal Symptoms: A Biosemiotic Excursion
• As Signs Grow, So Life Goes
• The Neglect of Subjective Medical Data and the Cultural Construction of Pain Disease—A Cross-Cultural Study
• On Abductions from the X-Ray Screen: The Semiotic Potential of Radiology Illustrated by Two False Suspicions
• Species, Signs, and Intentionality
• 'Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?': The Biosemiotic Self
• Biosemiotics: A Functional-Evolutionary Approach to the Analysis of the Sense of Information
• Half of the Living World Was Unable to Communicate for about One Billion Years
• The Social Construction of Alzheimer's Disease
• Biosemiotics, Ethnographically Speaking
• Categorical Perception as a General Prerequisite to the Formation of Signs? On the Biological Range of a Deep Semiotic Problem in Hjelmslev's as Well as Peirce's Semiotics
• Varieties of Semiosis
• On the Emergence of Chemical Languages
• Index
• Backmatter