Biosemiotics (from the Greek βίος bios, "life" and σημειωτικός sēmeiōtikos, "observant of signs") is a field of semiotics and biology that studies the prelinguistic meaning-making, biological interpretation processes, production of signs and codes and communication processes in the biological realm.[1]
Biosemiotics integrates the findings of biology and semiotics and proposes a paradigmatic shift in the scientific view of life, in which semiosis (sign process, including meaning and interpretation) is one of its immanent and intrinsic features.[2] The term biosemiotic was first used by Friedrich S. Rothschild in 1962,[3] but Thomas Sebeok, Thure von Uexküll, Jesper Hoffmeyer and many others have implemented the term and field.[4] The field is generally divided between theoretical and applied biosemiotics.
Insights from biosemiotics have also been adopted in the humanities and social sciences, including human-animal studies, human-plant studies[5][6] and cybersemiotics.[7]
^Favareau, Donald (ed.) 2010. Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary. (Biosemiotics 3.) Berlin: Springer.
^Alexandrov, Vladimir E. (2000). "Biology, Semiosis, and Cultural Difference in Lotman's Semiosphere". Comparative Literature. 52 (4): 339–362. doi:10.2307/1771352. JSTOR 1771352. Retrieved 11 May 2021. 'Biosemiotics.' This discipline focuses on the manifold possible connections between biology and semiotics, such as studying biological processes from a semiotic perspective and communication from a biological perspective, or searching for a way to theorize biological phenomena (Laubichler 'Introduction').
^On the early use of the term, see: Kull, Kalevi 2022. The term ‘Biosemiotik’ in the 19th century. Sign Systems Studies 50(1): 173–178.
^Kull, Kalevi 1999. Biosemiotics in the twentieth century: A view from biology. Semiotica 127(1/4): 385–414.
^Brentari, Carlo (2018-12-01). "From the Hiatus Model to the Diffuse Discontinuities: A Turning Point in Human-Animal Studies". Biosemiotics. 11 (3): 331–345. doi:10.1007/s12304-018-9329-8. ISSN 1875-1350. S2CID 49478848. Retrieved 2022-01-05.
^Ryan, John Charles (2012). "Passive Flora? Reconsidering Nature's Agency through Human-Plant Studies (HPS)". Societies. 2 (3): 101–121. doi:10.3390/soc2030101.
field is generally divided between theoretical and applied biosemiotics. Insights from biosemiotics have also been adopted in the humanities and social sciences...
2015, co-editor of the journal Biosemiotics and the Springer Book series in Biosemiotics. He authored the books Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs...
International Society for Biosemiotic Studies Affifi, Ramsey 2013. Learning plants: Semiotics between the parts and the whole. Biosemiotics 6: 547–559. Deely...
(2010). "Chapter 13: Theoretical Biology on Its Way to Biosemiotics". Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary. Springer Science & Business...
theoretical biologist and philosopher, one of founders of contemporary biosemiotics. He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and is head...
Prisca (2009). "Translating Jakob von Uexküll — Reframing Umweltlehre as biosemiotics". Sign Systems Studies. 37 (1/2): 281–298. doi:10.12697/SSS.2009.37.1-2...
Adolf Portmann: A Starting Point for the Biosemiotics of Organic Form? Archived 2013-11-03 at the Wayback Machine Biosemiotics 1. 207-219. v t e v t e...
Posner, et al. Berlin: De Gruyter. Biosemiotics, edited by M. Barbieri (eic). International Society for Biosemiotic Studies. Cybernetics and Human Knowing...
The semiosphere is an idea in biosemiotic theory proposing that, contrary to ideas of nature determining sense and experience, the phenomenal world is...
work would go on to become an important branch of semiotic biology or biosemiotics.: 132 Donald Favareau notes that Krampen's 1981 publication "Phytosemiotics"...
animal. It is the study of animal forms of knowing. Considered part of biosemiotics, zoosemiotics is related to the fields of ethology and animal communication...
American polymath, semiotician, and linguist. As one of the founders of the biosemiotics field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication...
He has been one of founders and first editor-in-chief of the journal Biosemiotics until 2012; currently, he is an editor of the journal BioSystems. His...
addition to English and Estonian abstracts). Biosemiotics (journal) Copenhagen–Tartu school of biosemiotics Semiotica Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School Semiotica...
different types of organisms. In later years he applied the principles of biosemiotics (indicator biology) on biochemistry. In 1946, Marcel Florkin was awarded...
and Thure von Uexküll, he developed a semiotic approach in biology (biosemiotics) in his works of the 1970s and 1980s. Umberto Eco appreciated Prodi's...
or in combination. There is a new field of research activity termed biosemiotics, and Jesper Hoffmeyer claims that endosymbiosis, self-reference, code...
original on 19 October 2016. Kull, Kalevi (2016). "The biosemiotic concept of the species". Biosemiotics. 9: 61–71. doi:10.1007/s12304-016-9259-2. S2CID 18470078...
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