Semiodividuality
Semiodividuality

Summary/Abstract: Jesper Hoffmeyer’s biosemiotic conception of the ‘semiotic body’ can be extended by reading together, along with Hoffmeyer, the scholars Charles S. Peirce, Thomas A. Sebeok and Victoria Welby – all of whose reflections have contributed to redefining the ‘semiotic self’ as a complex sign, verbal and nonverbal. As Peirce states, “It is that the word or sign which man uses is the man himself [...] the man and the external sign are identical, in the same sense in which the words homo and man are identical” (CP 5.314).

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