Saussure semiotic of animals in Zootopia (2016)

Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Animals in 2016

The editors of Animals would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2016.[...].

Saussure and Sherlock, Derrida and the Detective: A Semiotic and Deconstructive Interpretation of the Classic Detective Fiction Genre

Semiotic modelling of biological processes: semiotic systems

General abstract: Here we introduce biosemiotics as a field of research that develops models of life processes focusing on their informational aspects. Peirce’s general concept of semiosis can be used to analyze such processes, and provide a powerful basis for understanding the emergence of meaning in living systems, by contributing to the construction of a theory of biological information. Pei...

Semiotic Inquiry in Education

In this paper I present the view that inquiry in education can profit from insights from semiotics. Semiotics holds that cognition, or semiosis, is the building up of structures of signs from experience. We create a personal world, an Umwelt, that determines what we perceive and know. The environment also “affords” various structures and these affordances offer special ways to interact with the...

Two Paradigms of Linguistics: the Semiotic versus Non-semiotic Paradigm

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