Biosemiotics

Waste and the Second Turn in Biosemiotics Tyler Bennett The main characteristics of the second turn in biosemiotics are: “(a) extending the integration to Saussurean approaches; i.e. developing a general […]

Deleuze and Biosemiotics Peter Lang The aim of this paper is to establish a clear link between biosemiotics and Deleuzean philosophy. This can be done by highlighting the affinity in […]

Biosemiotics as a theoretical framework to approach the human gut-microbiota-brain-axis Rebeca Méndez-Veras & Òscar Castro The human brain has approximately 86-100 billion neurons; however, the enteric nervous system has an […]

Protein language models and the semiotic language of Signal Peptides Mariana Vitti Rodrigues, Claus Emmeche & Henrik Nielsen Are language models learning to read the language of nature? This communication […]

Does Biosemiotics Need a Theory of Reading? Paul Cobley Central to biosemiotics is the process of interpretation, which takes place across all species of life. General semiotics has been enlivened […]

Preliminary Connections with Semiotics in Linguistic Anthropology As a newcomer to the field of Biosemiotics, I find the Biosemiotics Glossary Project a fascinating example of intentional interdisciplinary and intercultural communication. […]

Structures of Animal Utterances Seen as Aesthetics – and as Communication. Semiotic perspectives on functions of so-called animal beauty   Due to a dramatic increase of research in ethology and […]

Meaningfulness and applicability of semiotic concepts in biosemiotics The 1st Gatherings in biosemiotics was held 22 years ago in Copenhagen and the first sentence of its CFP proclaimed the intention […]

Peirce’s ideas of the man-animal distinction Peirce was an evolutionist and one of the first to generalize the concept of evolution from biology to physics and sociology alike. He also […]

A view on abstract concepts from an interaction-based perspective: An attempt at a semiotic analysis Most of the approaches to concepts, both in cognitive science and in artificial intelligence, are […]