Origins of Semiosis: Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 1994

Origins of Semiosis

Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture

Edited by: Winfried Nöth

Volume 116 in the series Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877502

Contents

Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Introduction Winfried Nöth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Evolution and biosemiosis
Breathing life into signs: Ways and means of semiosic transition and transformation Myrdene Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Semiotic principles and systems: Biological foundations of semiotics Udo L. Figge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Opposition at the roots of semiosis Winfried Nöth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Primate nonverbal communication: Our communicative heritage Signe Preuschoft and Holger Preuschoft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
PART II Anthroposemiotic sociogenesis and cultural semiogenesis
The problem of certainty in human communication: An evolutionary view Peter Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The culture of nature: The semiotic dimensions of microcosm, mesocosm, and macrocosm Peter Grzybek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Evolution of human semiosis and the reading of animal tracks Gordon W. Hewes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Analysis of a human releasing mechanism Paul Leyhausen and Jörg Pfleiderer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Early social games reconsidered: Culture at play Susan Vogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Infant semiosis Colwyn Trevarthen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
PART III Glottogenesis: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and actogeny
Language and the origin of semiosis Robin Allott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Language evolution: A Darwinian process Bernard Η. Bichakjian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Deep reconstruction of languages and semantics Vitaly Shevoroshkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Material time and formal time: Genetically and metagenetically Roland Harweg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
The agent and the sentient: A dissymmetry in linguistic and cultural encoding Yoshihiko Ikegami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Language and brain Helmut Schnelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
INTERCHAPTER
Structure as idyll: The genesis of meaning in nature Roland Posner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	367
PART IV Eikonogenesis and graphogenesis
Constants in 40,000 years of art Emmanuel Anati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	385
Deixis vs. modeling in the phytogeny of artistic behavior Paul Bouissac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
Children's drawings: Ontogenetic aspects and phylogenetic roots Martin Krampen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
Can a picture tell a thousand words? Interpreting sequential vs. holistic graphic messages Richard W. Janney and Horst Arndt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
Writing, inscription, and text Götz Wienold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
PART V Appendix
List of contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
Index of subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: Reprint 2011
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 509
Illustrations
- Other: Num. figs.
Keywords: Semiotik; Aufsatzsammlung

eBook

Published: July 22, 2011
ISBN: 9783110877502

Hardcover

Published: August 1, 1994
ISBN: 9783110141962