Biosemiotic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics

Without biosemiosis, there could be no human language. The volume presents international perspectives that have been inspired by this simple idea. The contributors open up new methods, directions and perspectives on both language in general and specific human languages. Many commonplace notions (lan...

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Published in:Springer eBooks
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Velmezova, Ekaterina (Editor), Kull, Kalevi (Editor), Cowley, Stephen J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Biosemiotics,
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20663-9
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.