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On Semiotic Modeling / ed. by Floyd Merrell, Myrdene Anderson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 97Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2014]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (619 p.) : Zahlr. AbbContent type:
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  • 9783110123142
  • 9783110849875
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401/.41 20
LOC classification:
  • P99 .O48 1990
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
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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

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