Vegetative, animal, and cultural semiosis: The semiotic threshold zones

Cognitive Semiotics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 8-27

  Kull, Kalevi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

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EID: 77953512972     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogsem.2009.4.spring2009.8     Document Type: Article

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