Global Semiotics

This thorough account will appeal to seasoned scholars and neophytes alike.

List of contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Global Semiotics

2. The Evolution of Semiosis

3. Biosemiotics: Its Roots, Proliferation, and Prospects

4. Galen in Medical Semiotics

5. Signs, Bridges, Origins

6. What Do We Know about the Signifying Behavior in the Domestic Cat (Felis catus)?

7. "Give Me Another Horse"

8. Nonverbal Communication

9. Intersemiotics Transmutations: A Genre of Hybrid Jokes

10. "Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?": The Biosemiotic Self

11. The Cognitive Self and the Virtual Self

12. Some Reflections on Vico in Semiotics

13. Women in Semiotics

14. The Music of the Spheres

15. The Estonian Connection

16. My "Short Happy Life" in Finno-Ugric Studies

17. The Uralic Studies and English for Hungarians at Indiana University: A Personal View

Notes

References

Index of Names

About the author

Thomas A. Sebeok

Summary

The study of semiotics underwent a gradual but radical paradigm shift during the 20th century, from a glottocentric enterprise to one that encompasses the whole terrestrial biosphere. In this collection of 17 essays, Tom Sebeok, a thinker in the field, shows how this progression took place.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas A Sebeok, Thomas A. Sebeok, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Sebeok Thomas a
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2001
• EAN: 9780253339577
• ISBN: 978-0-253-33957-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 243 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Hardcov; Advances in Semiotics; Advances in Semiotics (Hardcov
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies