Semiotics

Imaginary courses notes.

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics

Barthes' school of thinking (focused on the description of explicit signs taken in isolation)

Greimas' structural semiotics (where a sign has meaning only when it is interpreted as part of a system)

Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication

Steps of plant communication: sender --emission--> cue --perception--> receiver --processing--> response

https://biosemiosis.blogspot.com/2008/07/macro-vs-microsemiosis.html

"1) Signs divide into formal and physical signs.

2) Physical signs divide into macro and micro signs.

3) The study of formal signs ==> 'Metaphysical semiotics'.

The study of macrosigns ==> 'Macrosemiotics'.

The studyo of microsigns ==> 'Microsemiotics'.

Scheme 1. A suggested trichotomization of the field of semiotics based on i) the
materiality and ii) the size of signs.


i) By 'Metaphysical' semiotics (or semiotic metaphysics?), I mean the study of signs on the most abstract and general level, or the metaphysics of signs (in contrast to the physics of signs). Pansemiotics, and triadic metaphysics of Peirce would belong to this branch of semotics.

ii) 'Macrosemiotics' is the study of macroscopic signs (e.g., words, sentences, pictures, sculptures, sounds, etc. ) that are visible, audible, tactile, and tastable to humans and other animals. Linguistics, literary art, visual arts, musicology, archtecture, dance, anthroposemiotics, and zoosemiotics would belong here.

iii) 'Microsemiotics' can be defined as the study of signs on the microscopic level (e.g., DNA, RNA, proteins, pheromones, cells). Biosemiotics of cells and their higher-order structures (e.g., organs, including the brain) analyzed in terms of molecules as the basic building blocks would constitute the main component of this branch of semiotics. Jesper Hoffmeyers work over the years and Macello's recent review article, among ohers, have laid the foundations for the field of microsemiotics."

https://philarchive.org/archive/QUETBA-2

The Biosemiotic Approach in Biology : Theoretical Bases and Applied Models 

"Also, from the 1960s to the 1990s, the semiotic approach in biology was developed in various branches:

• Zoosemiotics, the semiotics of animal behavior and communication
• Cellular and molecular semiotics, the study of organic codes and protolinguistic features of cellular processes 
• Phytosemiotics, or sign processes in plant life 
• Endosemiotics, or sign processes in the organism ’ s body 
• Semiotics in neurobiology 
• Origins of semiosis and semiotic thresholds

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