The making of models to encode knowledge is an intrinsic feature of human cognitive life. Signs, texts, codes, and various other representational forms are the direct outcomes of innate model-making systems. This book presents a methodological framework, developed from the field of biosemiotics, for studying semiotic phenomena as modeling processes. It presents a descriptive system for uniting semiotics and biology so that the "modeling instinct" can be studied in terms of its manifestations in various species. The book is written in an accessible textbook style, and can thus be used as a manual by both professional semioticians and students taking courses in semiotics, biology, and the communication sciences. It is composed in such a way that a broad readership can appreciate the fascinating research going on in a relatively unknown area of interdisciplinary study.
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- In Search of the Indo-Europeans by J. P. Mallory in Back Matter
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin in Back Matter
- The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon in Back Matter
- Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette in Back Matter
- Language: An Enquiry into Its Meaning and Function (Her Science of Culture Series V. 8) by Ruth Nanda Anshen in Back Matter
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- Global Semiotics: by Thomas A. Sebeok in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Orientations: Space / Time / Image / Word. Word & Image Interactions 5 (Textxet 48) (Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature) (No. 5) by Claus Clüver; Véronique Plesch on page 172
- Understanding Complexity on page 118
- Semiotics Unbounded: Interpretive Routes through the Open Network of Signs (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication) by Susan Petrilli in Back Matter
- Thomas Sebeok and the Biosemiotic Legacy (Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second-Order Cybernetics Auto Poiesis) by Soeren Brier on page 59
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