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What Connects Biolinguistics and Biosemiotics?

Biolinguistics, 2013
This paper reviews the background, fundamental questions, current issues, and goals of the intellectual movements initiated by Noam Chomsky’s biolinguistics and Thomas A. Sebeok’s (1920-2001) biosemiotics.
Prisca Augustyn
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Nonveridical biosemiotics and the Interface Theory of Perception: implications for perception-mediated selection

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
Recently, the relationship between evolutionary ecology and perceptual science has received renewed attention under perception-mediated selection, a mode of natural selection linking perceptual saliency, rather than veridicality, to fitness.
Brian Khumalo, Y. Hendlin
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Internet memes as internet signs: A semiotic view of digital culture

Sign Systems Studies, 2016
This article argues for a clearer framework of internet-based “memes”. The science of memes, dubbed ‘memetics’, presumes that memes remain “copying units” following the popularisation of the concept in Richard Dawkins’ celebrated work, The Selfish Gene ...
Sara Cannizzaro
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The Importance of Biosemiotics for Morphology

Biosemiotics, 2020
Morphology and its relevance for systematics is a promising field for the application of biosemiotic principles in scientific practice. Genital coupling in spiders involves very complex interactions between the male and female genital structures.
J. Schult, Onno A. Preik, St. Kirschner
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Tractatus Hoffmeyerensis: Biosemiotics as expressed in 22 basic hypotheses

Sign Systems Studies, 2002
This paper briefly outlines the main ideas of biosemiotics in 22 hypotheses, with special regards to the version of it claimed by Jesper Hoffmeyer.
Frederik Stjernfelt
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From theory to practice: The pragmatic value of applying systems thinking and complexity sciences in healthcare

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 149-152, March 2024.
Joachim P. Sturmberg, Carmel M. Martin
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Should there be biomolecular pragmatics?

Слово.ру: балтийский акцент
This article demonstrates that the concept proposed by Alexander Spirov reflects the ongoing paradigm shift and inspires new approaches in biosemiotics and semiotic pragmatics.
Suren T. Zolyan
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Topological Aspects of Biosemiotics

tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique, 2008
According to recent work of Bounias and Bonaly (2000), there is a close relationship between the conceptualization of biological life and mathematical conceptualization such that both of them co-depend on each other when discussing preliminary conditions
Rainer E. Zimmermann
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Grammaticalisation, Semiotic Pragmatics, and the Social Dimension: Dilemmas for Biosemiotics as a Theoretical and an Applied Science

Linguistic Frontiers
This essayistic paper positions pragmatics as an aspect within biosemiotics, a field still in becoming. “Semiotic pragmatics” is phrased as a contrast to “linguistic pragmatics” since historically, pragmatics, in opposition, departed from (‘pure ...
S. Ongstad
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A biosemiotic interpretation of certain genital morphological structures in the spiders Dysdera erythrina and Dysdera crocata (Araneae: Dysderidae). [PDF]

Theory Biosci, 2023
Schult J, Preik O, Kirschner S, Friedrich F.   +3 more
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