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Book 2000.0

La Traduzione

edited by Susan Petrilli

General Semiotics Meltemi editore 8883530349 Available

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Annotation: This issue of Athanor is a collection of contributions by specialists from different disciplinary fields - semiotics, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and biology - on the problems of translation. We can distinguish them on the basis of two orientations. One consists in limiting the question of translation to the realm of verbal language or, more specifically, to the relationship between historical-natural languages, or, again, to the more restricted realm of literary and poetic translation. The other, instead, aims to broaden the field of investigation to intersemiotic translation, between different non-verbal languages and even outside of human languages, to the point of including translations of a specifically biological nature that are the object of study of biosemiotics - such as for example, the three different types of translation in the nutritional system that constitute the difference between plants, animals and mushrooms - or the cyborg translation between organic and inorganic made possible by current technological development. (Translated with Google Translate)

Identifier: 8883530349

Status: Available

Book 2000.0

The Forms of Meaning

Thomas A. Sebeok | Marcel Danesi

General Semiotics Mouton de Gruyter 3110167514 Available

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Other title information: Modeling System Theory and Semiotic Analysis

Annotation: This book presents a methodological framework, developed from the field of biosemiotics, for studying semiotic phenomena as modeling processes. It presents a descriptive system for uniting semiotics and biology so that the "modeling instinct" can be studied in terms of its manifestations in various species. The book is written in an accessible textbook style, and can thus be used as a manual by both professional semioticians and students taking courses in semiotics, biology, and the communication sciences. It is composed in such a way that a broad readership can appreciate the fascinating research going on in a relatively unknown area of interdisciplinary study.

Identifier: 3110167514

Status: Available

Book 2000.0

The Perception of the Environment

Tim Ingold

Space Routledge 0415228328 Available

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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill

Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.

Identifier: 0415228328

Status: Available

Journal Article 1999

A new causality for the understanding of the living

Lucía Santaella

In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00

Pages: 497-520

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.497

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.497

La Traduzione

The Forms of Meaning

The Perception of the Environment

A new causality for the understanding of the living

A note on the semiotics of biological mimicry

A semiotic attempt to corral creativity via generativity

A semiotic perspective on biological objects and biological functions

An Aristotelian approach to animal behavior

Biohermeneutics and hermeneutics of biology

Biosemiotics and formal ontology

Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science

Biosemiotics in the twentieth century: A view from biology

Charles Morris’s biosemiotics

Editor’s note: Towards a prehistory of biosemiotics

Epistemic ordering and the development of space-time: Intentionality as a universal entailment

Evolutionary perspective for cognitive function: Cerebral basis of heterogeneous consciousness

Literary biosemiotics and the postmodern ecology of John Clare

Living signs

Natural selection and Maxwell’s demons: A semiotic approach to evolutionary biology

On genes, cells, and memory

On the history of joining bio with semio: F.S.Rothschild and the biosemiotic rules

Order out of indeterminacy

Peirce and biology

Psychic closure: A prerequisite for the recognition of the sign-function?

Roman Jakobson and biology: ‘A system of systems’

Semiosis: The transformation of energy into information

Semiotics of the artificial: The ‘self’ of self-reproducing systems in cellular automata

Sonstiges

The biological basis of Victoria Welby’s significs

The clock and its triadic relationship

The concept of nature in ancient Finns and Karelians

The emergence of difference: Some notes on the evolution of human semiosis

The origin and evolution of signs

The relationship between semiotics and mechanical models of explanation in the life sciences

The Sarkar challenge to biosemiotics: Is there any information in a cell?

The two foci of biology: Matter and sign

Towards biosemiotics with Yuri Lotman

Contents/Sommaire Volume 120 (1998)

Editor’s Note

Essai sur la représentation du drame musical

On semiosis, Umwelt, and semiosphere

Review article

Semiosis and biohistory: A reply

Sonstiges

Body as nexus—natural, factual, artifactual, evocative

Constructing speaker images: The problem of enunciation in discourse analysis

Conversation, coordination, and vertebrate communication

Cyber-semiotics: On autopoiesis, code-duality and signgames as vital aspects of bio-semiotics

Dancers’ bodies as the repository of conceptualisations of the body, with special reference to the Tiwi of Northern Australia

Iconic gestures, imagery, and word retrieval in speech