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Uexküllian Planmässigkeit
In: Sign System Studies 2004, Volume 32, Issue 1/2
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- 73-97
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2004.32.1-2.03
Modeling, dialogue, and globality: Biosemiotics and semiotics of self. 1. Semiosis, modeling, and dialogism
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 25-63
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.02
Modeling, dialogue, and globality: Biosemiotics and semiotics of self. 2. Biosemiotics, semiotics of self, and semioethics
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 65-107
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.03
Signs of Light
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Other title information: A biophotonic approach to human (meta)physical fundamentals
Annotation: We could say that inside the pages of this book we have "holographically" integrated the whole semiosis of the "world genesis by sign". This sign is the "creative sign" by which the light colours were spread throughout the world and the signs of the "creative face and resemblance" by which the human being was granted the gift-power to love his / her fellow beings, the cosmos and God.
Identifier: 9738518040
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The Organic Codes
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- An Introduction to Semantic Biology
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Annotation: Marcello Barbieri sets out his theory that there are many more organic codes in nature than the genetic code. The existence of these codes can be used to explain the major steps in the evolutionary history of life, and processes like epigenesis and complexity generation in embryos
Identifier: 0521824141
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Translation translation
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Annotation: Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world.In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis.But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.
Identifier: 9042009470
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Umwelt ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2003, Volume 31, Issue 1
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- 281-299
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2003.31.1.13
A sign is not alive — a text is
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 327-336
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.20
Copenhagen, Tartu, world: Gatherings in biosemiotics 2002
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 773-775
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.25
Editors’ comment
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 11-13
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.00
Obituary: Thomas A. Sebeok
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 383-386
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.24
On the epigenesis of meaning in robots and organisms: Could a humanoid robot develop a human(oid) Umwelt?
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 101-111
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.05
On the zoosemiotics of health and disease
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 213-219
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.12
Pragmatics and biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 245-258
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.14
Readers of the book of life
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- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
Status: Available
Reading Hoffmeyer, rethinking biology
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Annotation: This book is about biosemiotics - a paradigm for both biological and semiotic thinking - as approached through the work of one of its pioneers, Jesper Hoffmeyer.
Identifier: 9985566327
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Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis: Biosemiotics as expressed in 22 basic hypotheses
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 337-345
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.21
Umwelt and semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 33-40
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.02
Where bonds become binds: The necessity for Bateson’s interactive perspective in biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 163-181
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.09
Why and how to naturalize semiotic concepts for biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 293-313
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.18
Biosemiotics and ecological monitoring
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 293-312
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.17
Biosemiotics and the problem of intrinsic value of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 354-365
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.21
Conway's game of life and the ecosystem represented by Uexküll's concept of Umwelt
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 63-69
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.04
Ecosemiotics and cybersemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 107-120
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.07
Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 71-81
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.05
Ecosemiotics and the sustainability transition
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 219-236
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.13
Global Semiotics
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Annotation: The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the past century, from a glottocentric (language-centered) enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Thomas A. Sebeok, one of the seminal thinkers in the field, shows how this progression took place. His wide-ranging discussion of the evolution of the field covers many facets, including discussions of biosemiotics, semiotics as a bridge between the humanities and the natural sciences, semiosis, nonverbal communication, cat and horse behavior, the semiotic self, and women in semiotics. This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike."
Identifier: 025333957X
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Introduction: Special issue on semiotics of nature
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 9-11
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.00
Metamorfozele lumini
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- 2 edition
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Other title information: biofotonica, stiinta a complexitatii
Annotation: This book is an attempt to create an interdisciplinary perspective to light as a physical and biological henomenon.
Identifier: 9739899765
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S/E ≥ 1: A semiotic understanding of bioengineering
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 277-291
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.16
The emergence of signs of living feeling: Reverberations from the first Gatherings in Biosemiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 369-376
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.23
La Traduzione
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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
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The Forms of Meaning
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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
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The music of the spheres
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 527-536
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.527
A new causality for the understanding of the living
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 497-520
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.497
A semiotic attempt to corral creativity via generativity
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 481-496
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.481
A semiotic perspective on biological objects and biological functions
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 415-432
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.415
An Aristotelian approach to animal behavior
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 199-214
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.199
Biohermeneutics and hermeneutics of biology
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 215-226
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.215
Biosemiotics and formal ontology
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 537-566
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.537
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
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 169-198
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.169
Biosemiotics in the twentieth century: A view from biology
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 385-414
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.385
Charles Morris’s biosemiotics
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 67-102
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.67
Editor’s note: Towards a prehistory of biosemiotics
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 1-4
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.1
Epistemic ordering and the development of space-time: Intentionality as a universal entailment
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 567-598
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.567
Evolutionary perspective for cognitive function: Cerebral basis of heterogeneous consciousness
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 227-238
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.227
Literary biosemiotics and the postmodern ecology of John Clare
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 239-272
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.239
Living signs
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 453-480
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.453
Natural selection and Maxwell’s demons: A semiotic approach to evolutionary biology
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 133-150
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.133
On genes, cells, and memory
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 151-168
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.151