Semiosis and Catastrophes
Semiosis and Catastrophes The French mathematician Rene Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. Thom's heritage is full of revolutionary ideas and deep insights which stem from a rich intuition and a…
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Semiosis and Catastrophes
The French mathematician Rene Thom (Fields medal 1958) died in 2002. Thom's heritage is full of revolutionary ideas and deep insights which stem from a rich intuition and a sharp awareness of the current state of the sciences, including their potentials and risks. In this volume his contributions to biology, semiotics and linguistics are discussed by a group of scholars who have continued his work and have shaped the new paradigm of dynamic semiotics and linguistics.
the evolution and differentiation of meaningful (pregnant) forms in the field of symbolic systems - from bio-communication to language and cultural forms like music, art, The contributions to this volume are elaborations of papers given at a colloquium at the International Center for Semiotics and Linguistics of the University of Urbino (Italy), in 2005.The central concern of this volume is semiogenesis, i.e.