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Semiotic study of landscapes: An overview from semiology to ecosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 12-36
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.01
The institution of semiotics in Estonia
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 314-342
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.12
The space of culture
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Other title information: the place of nature in Estonia and beyond
Annotation: This volume sets out to construct a tentative bridge between the physical and perceived (academic) worlds, between the understandings of culture and nature, their spatiality and temporality by tackling the spatiality of culture phenomena across disciplinary boundaries. The contributions are arranged around a general question of how humans organise the spaces in which they live. The book is divided according to three themes: the humanities and ecosemiotic approach to nature, constructing nature, and examining environmental and landscape change. The first provides an historical review of the humanities and expands on the more theoretical themes. The second section discusses some ways in constructing (wild) nature with specific examples. The final one illustrates the changes that various cultures have brought about in the environment examining landscapes and domestication. The space of culture and the place of nature in various cultures are discussed critically throughout the volume in a way that challenges their ontological separations and invites to discuss culture-nature relationships on a more balanced basis
Identifier: 9789949196234
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Time-plans of the organisms: Jakob von Uexküll’s explorations into the temporal constitution of living beings
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 37-57
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.02
What is actually essential in biosemiotics?
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 366-382
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.15
Abstraction, cruelty and other aspects of animal play (exemplified by the playfulness of Muki and Maluca)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 558-579
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.09
Animal vocalization and human polyglossia in Walter of Bibbesworth’s thirteenth-century domestic treatise in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 525-541
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.07
Animals and music: Between cultural definitions and sensory evidence
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 423-453
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.02
Are “non-human sounds/music” lesser than human music? A comparison from a biological and musicological perspective
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 509-524
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.06
Bird sounds in nature writing: Human perspective on animal communication
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 580-613
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.10
Conditioning or cognition? Understanding interspecific communication as a way of improving animal training (a case study with elephants in Nepal)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 542-557
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.08
From biorhetorics to zoorhetorics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 498-508
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.05
Introduction
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 353-368
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.00
John Maynard Smith’s typology of animal signals: A view from semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 477-497
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.04
Konrad Lorenz’s epistemological criticism towards Jakob von Uexküll
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 637-660
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.12
Monsters we met, monsters we made: On the parallel emergence of phenotypic similarity under domestication
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 454-476
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.03
Sign activity of mammals as means of ecological adaptation
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 614-638
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.11
Studying the cognitive states of animals: Epistemology, ethology and ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 369-422
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.01
Biosemiotics
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Other title information: An examination into the signs of life and the life of signs
Notes: originally published in Danish as Biosemiotik. En afhandling om livets tegn og tegnenes liv (2005)
Annotation: Recent debates surrounding the teaching of biology divide participants into three camps based on how they explain the appearance of the human race: evolution, creationism, or intelligent design. Biosemiotics discovers an intriguing higher ground respecting those opposing theories by arguing that questions of meaning and experiential life can be integrated into the scientific study of nature. This groundbreaking book shows how the linguistic powers of humans imply that consciousness emerges in the evolutionary process and that life is based on sign action, not just molecular interaction. Biosemiotics will be essential reading for anyone interested in the nexus of linguistic possibility and biological reality.
Identifier: 9781859661691
Status: Available
Susan Petrilli named seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2008, Volume 36, Issue 2
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- 522-526
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2008.36.2.13
Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts
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- Proceedings of Gathering in Biosemiotics 6, Salzburg 2006
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Annotation: Proceedings of the Gathering in Biosemiotics in Salzburg 2006
Identifier: 9789525576030
Status: Available
The Logos of the Bios 2
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- Bio-Communication
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Annotation: In Volume 2 the practical application of the early developed pragmatic philosophy of body follows. Articles from 1 to 5 are reviews which cover all organismic kingdoms in special examples, except that of Archaea. The aim was to demonstrate Bio-communication in all domains of life as rule-governed sign-mediated interactions.
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Zoosemiotics
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- 1 edition
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Other title information: proposals for a handbook
Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.
Identifier: 9789525431162
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Äänen extreme
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Accompanying materials: Includes a CD
Annotation: Miten atomi? Milliasta on avaruuden mussikki? Mita sikio kuulee? Minakalaista musiikikia tekevat robotit ja mita ovat musibotit? Aanen eXtreme on uraaurtava esitys aanimaailman ihmeista. Se luo katsauksen aanien tuottamisen historiaan, kokooa yhteen viimeisinta tietoa aanituutkimuksen, aanitaiteen ja digitaalisen musiikin ulottuvuuksista seka kartoittaa aanimaailmojen reuna-alueita tietessa ja taitessa. Teoksen hahmottelemassa aaniversumissa perinteiset kasitykset musiikista menettavat merkityksena ja lukja sinkoutuu ulottuvuuksiin, joissa korvaa ei saastella.
Identifier: 9524717131
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Prenatal styles in the arts and the life
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Annotation: In this book the authors develop a theory of styles of expression that are constituted before birth. The basic assumption is that prenatal life leaves a deep trace on the persons' further development. The authors use this hypothesis to interpret artistic expressions.
Identifier: 9525431150
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The Logos of the Bios 1
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- Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.
Identifier: 9525576019
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Basics of Semiotics
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- 4 edition
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Semiootika alused
Annotation: Deely's objective is to distil common elements of semiosis from the whole continuum of animate reality (from the plant world to human beings) in order to set up a tagonomy of notions, principles and procedures for understanding the uniqueness of human semiosis.
Identifier: 9949110866
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Defining the semiotic animal
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Other title information: A postmodern definiton of "human being" to supersede the modern definition as "res cogitans"
Notes: Fourth and last publication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: The book starts with a historical overview of general semiotics and then transitions into zoosemiotics and biosemiotics, focusing on perception in animals and humans with a goal of defining what it means to be human
Identifier: 9548964678
Status: Available
Floyd Merrell named sixth Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 477-480
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.11
Founding a world biosemiotics institution: The International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 481-485
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.12
Mimikri Kui Kommunikatsiooni-Semiotiline Fenomen
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Notes: The title in English - Mimicry as a communication semiotic phenomenon
Annotation: Timo Maran's PhD Dissertation, studying the phenomenon of mimicry in from a biosemiotic standpoint.
Identifier: 9949110912
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Semiosphere and a dual ecology: Paradoxes of communication
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 175-189
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.07
Semiotics of Light
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Other title information: An integrative approach to human archetypal roots
Annotation: Inside the pages of this book we have holographically integrated the human world genesis by "WORLD-LIGHT". It is the generative sign by which the colors were spread throughout the world, it is the sign of the creative "image and alikeness" by which the human being was granted the gift-power to love both his / her fellow beings, cosmos and God. "LIGHT OF LIGHT", the metaphysics of physics...
Identifier: 9738518059
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The realm of continued emergence: The semiotics of George Herbert Mead and its implications to biosemiotics, semiotic matrix theory, and ecological ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 1
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- 27-52
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.1.02
Thomas Albert Sebeok and Semiotics
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Annotation: Compilation from the 1 April 2005 NBU Seminar
Identifier: 9548964651
Status: Available
Thure von Uexküll 1908–2004
In: Sign System Studies 2005, Volume 33, Issue 2
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- 487-494
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2005.33.2.13
Eye witnessing Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelttheory
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 373-374
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.17
From protoplasm to Umwelt: Plans and the technique of nature in Jakob von Uexküll’s theory of organismic order
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 139-167
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.06
History and significance of Jakob von Uexküll and of his institute in Hamburg
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 35-72
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.02
Jakob von Uexküll and Right Livelihood — the current actuality of his Weltanschauung1
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 363-371
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.16
Jakob von Uexküll Centre, since 1993
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 375-378
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.18
Mimesis and Metaphor: The biosemiotic generation of meaning in Cassirer and Uexküll
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 297-307
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.13
Schema as both the key to and the puzzle of life: Reflections on the Uexküllian crux
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 188-208
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.08
Semiotician or hermeneutician? Jakob von Uexküll revisited
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 115-138
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.05
Semiotics and Jakob von Uexküll’s concept of umwelt
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 11-34
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.01
Signs and the design of life – Uexküll’s significance today: A symposium, its significant history and future
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 379-383
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.19
The Eternal Question: Biological variations on a Platonic dialogue
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 329-362
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.15
The musical circle: The umwelt theory, as applied to zoomusicology
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 229-252
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.10
Uexküll and contemporary biology: Some methodological reconsiderations
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 169-186
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.07
Uexküll and the post-modern evolutionism
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 99-114
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.04