Recently added articles from The American Journal of Semiotics:
Joining Sign Science and Life Science: Introduction to The American Journal of Semiotics' Special Issue on Biosemiotics
Jan 01, 2008; ... Semiotics has itself thrived in a generative atmosphere of specialization and synthesis. Now, in an expanding intellectual universe, we converge with several other strains of scholarship .... We not only acknowledge this convergence and complementarity, but actively welcome the emerging ...
The Code Model of Semiosis: The First Steps Toward a Scientific Biosemiotics
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Biosemiotics asserts the idea that semiosis is fundamental to life, and that all living creatures are therefore semiotic systems. The idea itself is strongly supported by the evidence of the genetic code - but thus far it has made little impact in the scientific world, and is ...
The IASS Roundtable on Biosemiotics: A Discussion with Some Founders of the Field
Jan 01, 2008; ... Participants: Claus Emmeche (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Jesper Hoffmeyer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu, Estonia), Anton Markos" (Charles University, Prague), Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Copenhagen, ...
The Biosemiotics of Plant Communication
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstracts: This contribution demonstrates that the development and growth of plants depends on the success of complex communication processes. These communication processes are primarily sign-mediated interactions and are not simply an mechanical exchange of information) as that term has ...
Semiotic Freedom: Emergence and Teleology in Biological and Cognitive Interfaces
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract : The emergence of organic, metabolic, cognitive and cultural codes points us to the need for a new kind of explanatory causality, and a different kind of bio-logic - one dependent on, but different from, the deterministic logic derived from mechanical causality, and one which ...