TY - BOOK AU - Allott,Robin AU - Anati,Emmanuel AU - Anderson,Myrdene AU - Arndt,Horst AU - Bichakjian,Bernard Η. AU - Bouissac,Paul AU - Figge,Udo L. AU - Grzybek,Peter AU - Harweg,Roland AU - Hewes,Gordon W. AU - Ikegami,Yoshihiko AU - Janney,Richard W. AU - Krampen,Martin AU - Leyhausen,Paul AU - Meyer,Peter AU - Nöth,Winfried AU - Pfleiderer,Jörg AU - Posner,Roland AU - Preuschoft,Holger AU - Preuschoft,Signe AU - Schnelle,Helmut AU - Shevoroshkin,Vitaly AU - Trevarthen,Colwyn AU - Vogel,Susan AU - Wienold,Götz TI - Origins of Semiosis: Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture T2 - Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , SN - 9783110141962 AV - P99 .O75 1994 U1 - 302.2 20 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Communication KW - Philosophy KW - Evolution KW - Language and languages KW - Origin KW - Semiotics KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - Semiotik KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Introduction --; PART I Evolution and biosemiosis --; Breathing life into signs: Ways and means of semiosic transition and transformation --; Semiotic principles and systems: Biological foundations of semiotics --; Opposition at the roots of semiosis --; Primate nonverbal communication: Our communicative heritage --; PART II Anthroposemiotic sociogenesis and cultural semiogenesis --; The problem of certainty in human communication: An evolutionary view --; The culture of nature: The semiotic dimensions of microcosm, mesocosm, and macrocosm --; Evolution of human semiosis and the reading of animal tracks --; Analysis of a human releasing mechanism --; Early social games reconsidered: Culture at play --; Infant semiosis --; PART III Glottogenesis: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and actogeny --; Language and the origin of semiosis --; Language evolution: A Darwinian process --; Deep reconstruction of languages and semantics --; Material time and formal time: Genetically and metagenetically --; The agent and the sentient: A dissymmetry in linguistic and cultural encoding --; Language and brain --; INTERCHAPTER --; Structure as idyll: The genesis of meaning in nature --; PART IV Eikonogenesis and graphogenesis --; Constants in 40,000 years of art --; Deixis vs. modeling in the phytogeny of artistic behavior --; Children's drawings: Ontogenetic aspects and phylogenetic roots --; Can a picture tell a thousand words? Interpreting sequential vs. holistic graphic messages --; Writing, inscription, and text --; PART V Appendix --; List of contributors --; Index of names --; Index of subjects; restricted access; Issued also in print UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110877502 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110877502 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110877502/original ER -