TY - BOOK AU - Anderson,Myrdene AU - Baer,Eugen AU - Beaugrande,Robert de AU - Bunn,James H. AU - Deely,John AU - Emmeche,Claus AU - Foley,Vernard AU - Hagens,Bethe AU - Hoffmeyer,Jesper AU - Houser,Nathan AU - Koch,Walter A. AU - Levinthal,Mark AU - Merrell,Floyd AU - Mignolo,Walter D. AU - Painter,An AU - Pazukhin,Rostislav AU - Ramadhyani,Rachel B. AU - Reynolds,Peter C. AU - Ryan,Paul AU - Salthe,Stanley Ν. AU - Sebeok,Thomas A. AU - Spinks,C.W. AU - Zellweger,Shea AU - Μerrell,Floyd TI - On Semiotic Modeling T2 - Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , SN - 9783110123142 AV - P99 .O48 1990 U1 - 401/.41 20 PY - 2014///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Linguistics and Semiotics KW - Semiotics KW - Semiotics, other KW - Zoosemiotics KW - Semiotik KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Grounding figures and figuring grounds in semiotic modeling --; Part A. Issues of culture --; Structural differences in intentional action between humans and chimpanzees – and their implications for theories of handedness and bipedalism --; ‘Venuses’, turtles, and other hand-held cosmic models --; Toys in engineering history: The role of scale models and miniaturization techniques --; Maps, territories and mandalas: The spirit of place --; Notational systems: The interaction of model and content --; Part Β. Issues for science --; Code-duality and the semiotics of nature --; The use and misuse of metaphor in biology: Studies of the semantics of molecular evolution --; Kali theory --; The conduct of artificial life: A quest for artificial death? --; Worlds and signs: Explicate and implicate order --; Model, world, semiotic reality --; Semiotics and control systems: Toward a non-classical model of communication --; Part C. Issues in language and literature --; In what sense is language a 'primary modeling system'? --; On the semiotic status of written language --; (Re)modeling the letter: Literacy and literature at the intersection of semiotics and literary studies --; The logic of autobiography --; A semiotic model of conjecture --; Part D. Issues of semiosis --; A Peircean classification of models --; Diagrammatic thinking and the portraiture of thought --; Peirce, iconicity, and the geometry of logic --; ‘A Sign of itself’ --; Modeling anthroposemiosis --; Afterword --; Filling and emptying figures and grounds in art, craft, and science --; List of contributors --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110849875 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110849875 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110849875/original ER -