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Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature
Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature

Author(s): Winfried Nöth
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: Ecosemiotics is the study of sign processes (semioses) in relation to the natural environment in which they occur. The paper examines the cultural, biological, and evolutionary dimensions of ecosemioses on the basis of C. S. Peirce's theory of continuity between matter and mind and investigates the ecosemiotic dimensions of natural signs. Ecosemiotics and the semiotics of nature are distinguished from pansemiotism, and the coevolution of sign processes with their natural environment is discussed as a determining factor of ecosemiosis.

  • Issue Year: 29/2001
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 71-81
  • Page Count: 11
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