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almahu_9949481437202882
Format:
1 online resource (526 p.) :
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frontispiece
ISBN:
9783110254389
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] , 7
Content:
Peirce's (1906) proposal that the universe as a whole, even if it does not consist exclusively of signs, is yet everywhere perfused with signs, is a thesis that better than any other sums up the life and work of Thomas A. Sebeok, "inventor" of semiotics as we know it today. Semiotics - the doctrine of signs - has a long and intriguing history that extends back well beyond the last century, two and a half millennia to Hippocrates of Cos. It ranges through the teachings of Augustine, Scholastic philosophy, the work of Peirce and Saussure. Yet a fully-fledged doctrine of signs, with many horizons for the future, was the result of Sebeok's work in the twentieth century. The massive influence of this work, as well as Sebeok's convening of semiotic projects and encouragement of a huge number of researchers globally, which, in turn, set in train countless research projects, is difficult to document and has not been assessed until now. This volume, using the testimonies of key witnesses and participants in the semiotic project, offers a picture of how Sebeok, through his development of knowledge of endosemiotics, phytosemiotics, biosemiotics and sociosemiotics, enabled semiotics in general to redraw the boundaries of science and the humanities as well as nature and culture.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Chapter 1: Introduction: Thomas A. Sebeok: Biography and 20th century role --
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Part I. Essays --
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Chapter 2: Tackling Tom, lumper and splitter par excellence --
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Chapter 3: When anecdotes are no longer what they used to be --
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Chapter 4: Ethology and the Sebeokian way from zoosemiotics to cyber(bio)semiotics --
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Chapter 5: Sebeok's panopticon --
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Chapter 6: The semiotic foundations of knowledge: Remembering Thomas A. Sebeok --
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Chapter 7: Thomas A. Sebeok and semiotics of the 21st century --
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Chapter 8: Traduttore traditore? --
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Chapter 9: Astonishing life --
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Chapter 10: Semiotics, biology, and the adaptionist theory of literature and the arts --
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Chapter 11: The architect of biosemiotics: Thomas A. Sebeok and biology --
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Chapter 12: Tom's often neglected other theoretical source --
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Chapter 13: We got to know his method --
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Chapter 14: About a master of signs starting from The Sign & Its Masters --
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Chapter 15: A Tribute to Thomas A. Sebeok --
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Chapter 16: Thomas A. Sebeok, Hybrid Joke-teller --
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Chapter 17: Thomas A. Sebeok, A portrait of a Finnougrian semiotician --
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Chapter 18: Sebők Tamás - Identity and integrity --
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Chapter 19: Birth of a notion --
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Chapter 20: Thomas A. Sebeok: On semiotics of history and history of semiotics --
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Part II. Vignettes and stories --
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Chapter 21: Ubiquity --
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Chapter 22: Un Sacco di Cane --
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Chapter 23: Tom Sebeok, Hoosier --
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Chapter 24: Tom Sebeok, the man who loved time --
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Chapter 25: Brief encounters with Thomas A. Sebeok --
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Chapter 26: Speaking and writing about Thomas A. Sebeok - This is a way of thinking --
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Chapter 27: Summing up: In lieu of an introduction --
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Part III. Letters --
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Chapter 28: Anderson letter of 13 May 2002 --
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Chapter 29: Eco letter of 11 January 2002 --
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Chapter 30: Hamp letter of 2 January 2002 --
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Chapter 31: Remak letter of 24 December 2001 --
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Chapter 32: Watt letter of 5 January 2002 --
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Part IV. The Tartu connection --
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Chapter 33: The Tartu connection: Thomas Sebeok's correspondence with Juri Lotman --
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Part V. Final resting place --
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Burial site marker and co-ordinates --
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Part VI. Photographs --
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Twenty-seven pictures --
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Notes on contributors --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238457
In:
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
In:
De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015, De Gruyter, 9783110742961
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261189
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261233
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261226
In:
E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 2011, De Gruyter, 9783110261240
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110253191
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110254389
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110254389
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110254389
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