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Umberto Eco's semiotic threshold

Sign Systems Studies, 2000
The "semiotic threshold" is U. Eco's metaphor of the borderline between the world of semiosis and the nonsemiotic world and hence also between semiotics and its neighboring disciplines.
Winfried Nöth
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Understanding life: Trans-semiotic analogies

Sign Systems Studies, 2002
. This paper sketches a network of analogies reaching from linguosemiotics (including theory of reference in analytical philosophy of language) to biosemiotics.
Andres Luure
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The Fibonacci sequence and the nature of mathematical discovery: A semiotic perspective

Sign Systems Studies, 2005
This study looks at the relation between mathematical discovery and semiosis, focusing on the famous Fibonacci sequence. The serendipitous discovery of this sequence as the answer to a puzzle designed by Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci to ...
Marcel Danesi
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Semiosis and pragmatism: Toward a dynamic concept of meaning

Sign Systems Studies, 2006
Philosophers and social scientists of diverse orientations have suggested that the pragmatics of semiosis is germane to a dynamic account of meaning as process. Semiosis, the central focus of C. S.
João Queiroz, Floyd Merrell
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From materiality to system

Sign Systems Studies, 2006
This paper seeks to address the relation of materiality to structure and phenomena of signification or semiosis. It examines the logical consequences of several major lines of argument concerning the status of semiosis with regards to the human or ...
Louis Armand
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Paradigmes d’alternatives syntagmatiques : la manifestation est une compétition

Signata, 2017
In a structural point of view, paradigms are in principle and generally classifications which are reserved to the language system, to its immanent structure.
Jacques Fontanille
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The realm of continued emergence: The semiotics of George Herbert Mead and its implications to biosemiotics, semiotic matrix theory, and ecological ethics

Sign Systems Studies, 2005
This examination of the often-inaccessible work and semiotics of George Herbert Mead focuses first on his pivotal ideas of Sociality, Consciousness, and Communication. Mead’s insight of sociality as forced relatedness, or forced semiosis, appearing early
Jorge Conesa Sevilla
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The role of biosemiosis and semiotic scaffolding in the processes of developing intelligent behaviour

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2021
Biosemiotics deals with the processes of signs in all dimensions of nature. Semiosis is the primary form of intelligence. Intelligent behaviour becomes immediately understandable in this approach because semiosis combines causality with the triadic ...
Anna Sarosiek
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Choosing and learning: Semiosis means choice

Sign Systems Studies, 2018
We examine the possibility of shifting the concept of choice to the centre of the semiotic theory of learning. Thus, we define sign process (meaning-making) through the concept of choice: semiosis is the process of making choices between simultaneously ...
Kalevi Kull
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Spatial semiosis and time

Sign Systems Studies, 2005
Spatial semiosis differs from temporal one by its structural and functional peculiarities. Meaningful relations between units of spatial texts are not ordered along of temporal axe and do not need time in their form of expression. However time remains an
Leonid Tchertov
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