Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics

Herausgegeben:Velmezova, Ekaterina; Cowley, Stephen J.; Kull, Kalevi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Biosemiotics 13
• Verlag: Springer / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-20662-2
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9783319206622
• ISBN-10: 3319206621
• Artikelnr.: 42864756

Inhaltsangabe

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.