A unified academic catalogue for books, journal articles, book chapters, proceedings papers, conference abstracts and semiotic research materials.
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Language of Life
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- A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms
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Notes: general editor of the series Elize Bisanz
Annotation: In this book, Peirce’s logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the multidimensionality of the passage from genotype to phenotype. The interdisciplinary nature of this study consists in combining Peirce’s triadic logic, linguistics and biology; the author, as a linguist, draws out similarities between sentence construction and protein folding. Three main branches from the biological sciences are focused on: evolution, epigenetics and protein folding. The volume applies Peirce’s logical tools to demonstrate the universal validity of his scientific method in the current research.
Identifier: 9783631925935
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Funktionskreis and the biosemiotic signifieds: Towards the integration of semiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2022, Volume 50, Issue 2/3
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- 433-452
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2022.50.2-3.10
<b>The use of semiotic resources in traffic policing</b>: a<b>n exploration of genre structure and exchanges in traffic accident handling in China</b>
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 169-202
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0149
A walk through the history of Spanish thought influenced by Uexküll
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 241
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- 61-86
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0064
A zoosemiotic approach to the transactional model of communication
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 39-62
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0052
Bühler’s organon model of communication: a semiotic analysis of advertising slogans
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 229-239
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2018-0028
Complexes, rule-following, and language games: Wittgenstein’s philosophical method and its relevance to semiotics
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 63-100
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0113
Derrida’s “chimerical experimental exercise”: an ecolinguistic dream of a more biocentric language
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 1-16
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0027
On the blankness of blank-signs
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 123-139
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0014
Practical Esotericism and Tikkun Olam: two modern renditions of a medieval mystical idea
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 203-227
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0039
Review of A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: the emergence of social-cultural reality
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 249-254
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0097
Semiotics in visual communication: review of Doing Visual Analysis
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 241-247
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2021-0024
Systematizing evil in literature: twelve models for the analysis of narrative fiction
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 141-168
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0071
The distribution of handshapes in the established lexicon of Israeli Sign Language (ISL)
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 101-122
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2019-0049
The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress
In: Semiotica 2021, Issue 242
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- 17-37
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/sem-2020-0050
Multiculturalism as Multimodal Communication
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Other title information: A Semiotic Perspective
Annotation: This highly readable book develops a numanistic, and specifically semiotic approach to multiculturalism. It reveals how semiotics provides fresh and valuable insights into multiculturalism: in contrast to the binary logic of dualistic philosophy, semiotic logic does not understand the value of truth in rigid terms of ‘true’ or ‘false’, ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ only. The value of truth resides in meaning, which is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomenon, rooted, nevertheless, in factuality. Drawing on recent developments in biosemiotics, the book presents a theoretical approach to multiculturalism, regarding the lives of people living in multicultural environments. Rather than analyzing political or economic phenomena, it offers a semiotic analysis of multiculturalism and discusses its educational implications. It also invites readers to regard learning as a phenomenon of ecological sign growth and to understand multiculturalism along the same lines. As such, it brings together the life and social sciences and the humanities in a unified perspective, in an approach fitting postmodernism.
Identifier: 9783030178826
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A study by Umberto Eco and his colleagues on the history of early zoosemiotics: Commentary and bibliography
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 383-391
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.11
Adaptation, learning, Bildung: Discussion with edu- and biosemiotics
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 435-451
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.02
Animal language before Sebeok
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 365-377
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.09
Choosing and learning: Semiosis means choice
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 452-466
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.03
Founding of the French Zoosemiotics Society
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 401-402
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.14
Two decades of ecosemiotics in Tartu
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 4: Learning and adaptation: Semiotic perspectives
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- 630-639
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.4.11
Umberto Eco on the biosemiotics of Giorgio Prodi
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 352-364
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.08
Umwelt, Lebenswelt and Dasein seen through the lens of a subjective experience of reality
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 1
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- 126-142
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.1.06
Urban ecosemiotics of trees: Why the ecological alien species paradigm has not gained ground in cities?
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 319-342
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.06
Gli stili prenatali
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- Un'estetica psicofisiologica
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Annotation: This book, in this re-edition, contains a broad update of the research on the topic of prenatal styles. What is proposed here is a psychophysiological aesthetics and at the same time a semiotics that provides tools to diagnose "senseless" pathological behaviors as symptoms of an obsessive or regressive condition corresponding to a certain prenatal evolutionary phase. The volume is aimed at a wide and varied audience. In particular, it is proposed as a training tool for teachers of verbal and non-verbal expressive disciplines, for teachers and students of humanistic disciplines, for educators, animators, community assistants and health personnel.
Identifier: 9788869922787
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Mimicry and Meaning
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Other title information: Structure and Semiotics of Biological Mimicry
Annotation: The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participants’ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Identifier: 9783319503158
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The Relationship Between Social and Biotic Evolution: The Evolution of Autopoietic Systems
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2017, Volume 24, Issue 1: Evolution and Communication—Heterodox Rethinkings
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- 33-53
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Towards an ecology of mind
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Other title information: Batesonian legacy continued
Annotation: This new editorial series in the humanities, established under the title Batesoniana Polonica, is open to all international contributors asa potential platfrom for respective exhanges of ideas and a tool for the further deepending of analyses that may be developed in various sectors of scientific explorations where the influence of Gregory Bateson is felt for years and years and much before his death in 1980. The following volume no 1, is a very special kind of collective exertion for editors, and, hopefully, it will be well received so by its prospective readers. Its project is connected with preparations for a truly international initiative, namely the Second Bateson Symposium in Poland, to be located at the Silesian Botanic Garden in Mikolow, June 1-4 2017, which should constitute a preliminary stage to a world congress on the ecology of mind to be held at Katowice, Poland, in July of 2018.
Identifier: 9788365621252
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Animal Umwelten in a Changing World
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Other title information: Zoosemiotic perspectives
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: This book is a collective effort. Its authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human-animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Stavanger in Norway. The two opening chapters are written and edited collectively and present a framework of philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological matters of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies that have been conducted by individual authors. The specific chapters, however, have been cross-edited and commented on by other authors of the book so that the whole collection forms an integrated set of view-points.
Identifier: 9789949772803
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Art: A First-Person Science
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Biosemiotic Cosmogony of the Riddle of Life!
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Biosemiotic Expectations
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Cultural Implications of Biosemiotics
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Annotation: This is the first book to consider the major implications for culture of the new science of biosemiotics. The volume is mainly aimed at an audience outside biosemiotics and semiotics, in the humanities and social sciences principally, who will welcome elucidation of the possible benefits to their subject area from a relatively new field. The book is therefore devoted to illuminating the extent to which biosemiotics constitutes an ‘epistemological break’ with ‘modern’ modes of conceptualizing culture. It shows biosemiotics to be a significant departure from those modes of thought that neglect to acknowledge continuity across nature, modes which install culture and the vicissitudes of the polis at the centre of their deliberations. The volume exposes the untenability of the ‘culture/nature’ division, presenting a challenge to the many approaches that can only produce an understanding of culture as a realm autonomous and divorced from nature.
Identifier: 9789402408577
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Interaffectivity: Why interaction is not enough
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Reflections on Cybersemiotic Experience in the Meta-Environment
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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The Dark Side of Technological Singularity: New Barbarism
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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The Mutual Benefits of Cybersemiotics and the Field of Technology-Based Arts
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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Transparent Dialogues: On Complex Affective Systems (CAFFS)
In: Cybernetics & Human Knowing 2016, Volume 23, Issue 4: Cybersemiotics and Technology-Based Arts
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A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
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Annotation: This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science speciality evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how, while initially consisting of cell biologists, the Chinese biophysics community redirected their disciplinary priorities toward rocket science in the late 1950s to accommodate the national interests of the time. Biophysicists who had worked on biological-sounding rockets were drawn to the military sector and continued to contribute to human spaceflight in post-Mao China. Besides the rocket-and-space missions which provided the material context for biophysics to expand in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Chinese biophysicists also created research and educational programs surrounding biophysics by exploiting the institutional opportunities afforded by the policy emphasis on science's role to drive modernization. The book explores and demonstrates the collective achievements and struggles of Chinese biophysicists in building their scientific discipline.
Identifier: 9783319180922
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A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world
In: Sign Systems Studies 2015, Volume 43, Issue 2/3
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- 281-346
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2015.43.2-3.09
Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen
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Annotation: Our relationship with "other" animals is not only becoming socially ever more significant, it has also been rediscovered as a topic for the humanities and sciences. This volume is the first encyclopedia to devote itself comprehensively to the relationship between humans and animals. In contrast to traditional introductions into animal ethics, the large-scale work does not limit itself to issues of moral philosophy but also explores the human-animal relationship from a historical, sociological, ethological and cultural perspective
Identifier: 9783837622324
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Philosophy of Education in the Semiotics of Charles Peirce
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Other title information: A Cosmology of Learning and Loving
Annotation: This book investigates the philosophy of education implicit in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It is commonly accepted that the acts of learning and teaching imply affection of some sort, and Charles Peirce’s evolutionary semiotics thoroughly explains learning as an act of love. According to Peirce, we evolved to learn and to love; learning from other people has proved to be one of the best ways to carry out our infinite pursuit of truth, since love is the very characteristic of truth. As such, the teacher and the student practise love in their relation with one another. Grounded within an edusemiotics framework and also exploring the iconic turn in semiotics and recent developments in biosemiotics, this is the first book-length study of Peirce’s contribution to the philosophy of education.
Identifier: 9783034318822
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Mathematics as a Modeling System
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Other title information: a Semiotic Approach
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Mathematics and semiotics share many intellectual features and interests, from the study of how representations stand for specific kinds of referents to philosophical considerations of how these interrelate with reality. Nonetheless, in-depth studies of this intrinsic relation between the two have rarely been undertaken, with a few notable exceptions (as will be discussed in the book). Especially relevant to the study of the nature of mathematics is the concept of model – a term and notion that is used widely in both disciplines. However, to the best of our knowledge the theory of models in semiotics, known as Modeling Systems Theory, has rarely, if ever, been applied to the study of mathematical modeling. The purpose of this book is to do exactly that since it is our view that mathematics is a de facto modelling system in the semiotic sense and it is our hope that from this it will be possible to gain considerable insights into how mathematics works and achieves the discoveries and forms of knowledge that it has since the dawn of antiquity. Hopefully, this will allow both mathematicians and semioticians to pursue similar or analogous research objectives with regard to understanding the biological and cognitive etiology of sign systems and their connection to reality.
Identifier: 9789949326105
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Beginnings of the Semiotics of Culture
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Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: Key historical texts of semiotics of culture in Tartu Moscow School
Identifier: 9789949323234
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Gatherings in Biosemiotics
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Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: This is a special commemorative edition of Gatherings in Biosemiotics. It includes new material on the basics of biosemiotics, as well as a complete history of the Gatherings as told by their organizers. The first part, Approaches to Biosemiotics, includes five short papers on the importance of semiotics for biology. The second part, History of the Gatherings, begins with two retrospectives, by Jesper Hoffmeyer and Donald Favareau. The third part features nearly the entire set of submitted abstracts for this year's conference.
Identifier: 9789949320486
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Axiomatizing umwelt normativity
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 1
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- 9-59
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.1.01
Editors' comment
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 9-11
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.00
Interview with Vyacheslav V. Ivanov about semiotics, the languages of the brain and history of ideas
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 290-313
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.11
Juri Lotman in English: Bibliography
In: Sign System Studies 2011, Volume 39, Issue 2/4: Tartu Semiotics
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- 343-356
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2011.39.2-4.13