Origins of Semiosis : : Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture / / ed. by Winfried Nöth.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: Allott, Robin,; Anati, Emmanuel,; Anderson, Myrdene,; Arndt, Horst,; Bichakjian, Bernard Η.,; Bouissac, Paul,; Figge, Udo L.,; Grzybek, Peter,; Harweg, Roland,; Hewes, Gordon W.,; Ikegami, Yoshihiko,; Janney, Richard W.,; Krampen, Martin,; Leyhausen, Paul,; Meyer, Peter,; Nöth, Winfried,; Pfleiderer, Jörg,; Posner, Roland,; Preuschoft, Holger,; Preuschoft, Signe,; Schnelle, Helmut,; Shevoroshkin, Vitaly,; Trevarthen, Colwyn,; Vogel, Susan,; Wienold, Götz,
• HerausgeberIn: Nöth, Winfried,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 116
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (509 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Introduction --; PART I Evolution and biosemiosis --; Breathing life into signs: Ways and means of semiosic transition and transformation --; Semiotic principles and systems: Biological foundations of semiotics --; Opposition at the roots of semiosis --; Primate nonverbal communication: Our communicative heritage --; PART II Anthroposemiotic sociogenesis and cultural semiogenesis --; The problem of certainty in human communication: An evolutionary view --; The culture of nature: The semiotic dimensions of microcosm, mesocosm, and macrocosm --; Evolution of human semiosis and the reading of animal tracks --; Analysis of a human releasing mechanism --; Early social games reconsidered: Culture at play --; Infant semiosis --; PART III Glottogenesis: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and actogeny --; Language and the origin of semiosis --; Language evolution: A Darwinian process --; Deep reconstruction of languages and semantics --; Material time and formal time: Genetically and metagenetically --; The agent and the sentient: A dissymmetry in linguistic and cultural encoding --; Language and brain --; INTERCHAPTER --; Structure as idyll: The genesis of meaning in nature --; PART IV Eikonogenesis and graphogenesis --; Constants in 40,000 years of art --; Deixis vs. modeling in the phytogeny of artistic behavior --; Children's drawings: Ontogenetic aspects and phylogenetic roots --; Can a picture tell a thousand words? Interpreting sequential vs. holistic graphic messages --; Writing, inscription, and text --; PART V Appendix --; List of contributors --; Index of names --; Index of subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110877502; 9783110636895
• ISSN: 0066-5576
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110877502
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Winfried Nöth.