On Semiotic Modeling
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2014
VII, 619 pages
978-3-11-084987-5 (ISBN)
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Reprint 2013
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Publishing group
de Gruyter Mouton
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Zahlr. Abb.
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33,05 MB
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978-3-11-084987-5 (9783110849875)
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On Semiotic Modeling
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Content
- Intro
- 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 B 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 artifical 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
