The cultural implications of biosemiotics

Biosemiotics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 225-244

  Cobley, Paul ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Code duality; Collectivity; Cultural analysis; Hoffmeyer; Humanities; Individualism; Living nature; Nonverbal; Semiotic freedom; Subject; Umwelt; Verbal

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955051643     PISSN: 18751342     EISSN: 18751350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-010-9089-6     Document Type: Article

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