Published in Cognitive Semiotics
This is a short overview of the newly published four-volume anthology edited by Jamin Pelkey et al. titled Bloomsbury Semiotics, with a critical reflection upon the disciplinary status of general semiotics today. The paper proposes methods and principles for future semiotic research and observes the overall trajectory of semiotics during the age of...
Published in Language and Semiotic Studies
Peirce’s final statements on the sign were consigned in various ways over a hundred years ago as a form of logic, a branch of the science of enquiry based upon observation. This means inevitably that some parts of the theory will have been contested or considered superseded by more recent pronouncements on cognitive activity in general, both within...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Faut-il en finir avec l’anthropomorphisme ? Il apparaît difficile derépondre de manière simple à cette question qui conduit à interroger enprofondeur la pensée du vivant qui se fait jour à travers la littérature depuisle début du xx e siècle. La perspective écocritique adoptée ici conduira doncà prendre la mesure des sources qui ont mené au renouve...
Faut-il en finir avec l’anthropomorphisme ? Il apparaît difficile derépondre de manière simple à cette question qui conduit à interroger enprofondeur la pensée du vivant qui se fait jour à travers la littérature depuisle début du xx e siècle. La perspective écocritique adoptée ici conduira doncà prendre la mesure des sources qui ont mené au renouve...
Published in Language and Semiotic Studies
Ecological semiotics belongs to the field of culture, and biological semiotics refers to biology. There are both similarities and differences between ecological semiotics (ecosemiotics) and biological semiotics (biosemiotics). “Co-existence and co-prosperity” are the highest true meaning of human beings and nature. Faced with the increasingly serio...
Published in Chinese Semiotic Studies
Looking beyond the internalism–externalism debate, we offer a distributed view of how experience can garner linguistic and mental content. To make the case, first, we challenge the idea that cognition is organism-centered and synchronistic. Instead, we use Berthoz’s principle of “simplexity” to open up the multiscalarity of cognitive ecosystems. In...
Published in Journal of World Languages
Ways of meaning link ecosystemic destruction with social and linguistic interdependencies. By freeing the entangled roots of these phenomena, we can find a way to rewilding ecolinguistic territory. Turning from focus on analysis of languages, texts, or practices, one unleashes the epistemic power of languaging. As we come to know and understand, la...
L’article propose une contextualisation des thèses du biologiste balte Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944), dont la lecture révèle des convergences tout à la fois avec les versions non physicalistes du béhaviorisme et avec le néovitalisme. L’importance de la référence au kantisme conduit par ailleurs à relativiser la thèse d’une discontinuité entre les p...
Published in Chinese Semiotic Studies
The present issue of Chinese Semiotic Studies is published in memory of Thomas A. Sebeok. Sebeok was not only a master semiotician, but more importantly a grand artist in semiotics. As one of the most important contemporary figures in semiotics, linguistics, ethnology, and cultural studies, Sebeok made profound contributions to the progress of glob...
