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The 7th Gathering in Biosemiotics — a review
The 7th Gathering in Biosemiotics — a review

Author(s): Yair Neuman
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: In a post-modern era in which the fragmentation of knowledge is evident in every academic field, the attempt to gain a meta-perspective seems like an old anachronistic venture. However, an emerging new field of inquiry seems to challenge this fashionable dogma. Biosemiotics is a field of inquiry that seeks to understand a variety of biological phenomena as sign-mediated processes. For example, to understand biological phenomena, such as immune recognition or genetic coding, as biological processes constituted by signs and their communication.

  • Issue Year: 35/2007
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 301-303
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English