Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-319-20662-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 295 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 5797 g

Reihe: Biosemiotics

The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Velmezova, Ekaterina

Cowley, Stephen J.

Kull, Kalevi

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Language, linguistics - life, biosemiotics…- On biosemiotics and its possible relevance to linguistic.- Language and biosphere: Blurry contours as a condition of semiosis.- Language as primary modeling and natural languages: A biosemiotic perspective.- Umwelt and language.- Verbal patterns: Taming cognitive biology.- Biolinguistics and biosemiotics.- Biology, linguistics, and the semiotic perspective on language.- Before Babel: The evolutionary roots of human language.-  Biosemiotics, politics and Th.A. Sebeok’s move from linguistics to semiotics.- How useful is état de langue for biosemiotics? An exploration of linguistic consciousness and evolution in F. de Saussure’s works.- Darwin’s Ethology and the expression of the emotions: Biosemiotics as a historical science.- Darwin’s biosemiotics: The linguistic Rubicon in the Descent of Man.- The Bakhtinian dialogue revisited: A (non-biosemiotic) view from historiography and epistemology of humanities.