Global semiotics /

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Author / Creator:Sebeok, Thomas A, (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001
Imprint:Bloomington : Indiana University Press,c, 2001.
Description:xxiii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Advances in semiotics
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4524979
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ISBN:025333957X (cl)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-228) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Global Semiotics
  • 2. The Evolution of Semiosis
  • 3. Biosemiotics: Its Roots, Proliferation, and Prospects
  • 4. Galen in Medical Semiotics
  • 5. Signs, Bridges, Origins
  • 6. What Do We Know about the Signifying Behavior in the Domestic Cat (Felis catus)?
  • 7. "Give Me Another Horse"
  • 8. Nonverbal Communication
  • 9. Intersemiotics Transmutations: A Genre of Hybrid Jokes
  • 10. "Tell Me, Where is Fancy Bred?": The Biosemiotic Self
  • 11. The Cognitive Self and the Virtual Self
  • 12. Some Reflections on Vico in Semiotics
  • 13. Women in Semiotics
  • 14. The Music of the Spheres
  • 15. The Estonian Connection
  • 16. My "Short Happy Life" in Finno-Ugric Studies
  • 17. The Uralic Studies and English for Hungarians at Indiana University: A Personal View
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index of Names