Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

Series | Book

223703

Biosemiotic perspectives on language and linguistics

edited byEkaterina VelmezovaKalevi Kull Stephen J. Cowley

Abstract

Without biosemiosis, there could be no human language. The volume presents international perspectives that have been inspired by this simple idea. The contributors open up new methods, directions and perspectives on both language in general and specific human languages. Many commonplace notions (language, dialect, syntax, sign, text, dialogue, discourse, etc.) have to be rethought once due attention is given to the living roots of languages. Accordingly, the contributors unite "eternal" problems of the humanities (such as language and thought, origin of language, prelinguistic meaning-making, borders of human language and "marginal" linguistic phenomena) with new inspirations drawing from natural science. They do so with respect to issues such as: how biolinguistics relates to biosemiotics, the history and value of general linguistic and (bio)semiotic models, and how empirical work can link the study of language with biosemiotic phenomena. The volume thus begins to unify perspectives on language(s) and living systems. Biosemiotics connects the sciences with the humanities while offering a new challenge to autonomous linguistics by pointing towards new kinds of interdisciplinary fusion.

Details | Table of Contents

Before Babel

the evolutionary roots of human language

Piera Filippi

pp.191-204

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20663-9_10
How useful is état de langue for biosemiotics?

an exploration of linguistic consciousness and evolution in F. de Saussure's works

Jui-Pi Chien

pp.223-240

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20663-9_12
Darwin's biosemiotics

the linguistic rubicon in the descent of man

Deana Neubauer

pp.257-273

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20663-9_14
The Bakhtinian dialogue revisited

a (non-biosemiotic) view from historiography and epistemology of humanities

Ekaterina Velmezova

pp.275-290

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20663-9_15

Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Dordrecht

Year: 2015

Pages: 295

Series: Biosemiotics

Series volume: 13

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20663-9

ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-20662-2

ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-20663-9

Full citation:

Velmezova Ekaterina, Kull Kalevi, Cowley Stephen J. (2015) Biosemiotic perspectives on language and linguistics. Dordrecht, Springer.