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Frontmatter -- Introduction / Nöth, Winfried -- PART I Evolution and biosemiosis -- Breathing life into signs: Ways and means of semiosic transition and transformation / Anderson, Myrdene -- Semiotic principles and systems: Biological foundations of semiotics / Figge, Udo L. -- Opposition at the roots of semiosis / Nöth, Winfried -- Primate nonverbal communication: Our communicative heritage / Preuschoft, Signe / Preuschoft, Holger -- PART II Anthroposemiotic sociogenesis and cultural semiogenesis -- The problem of certainty in human communication: An evolutionary view / Meyer, Peter -- The culture of nature: The semiotic dimensions of microcosm, mesocosm, and macrocosm / Grzybek, Peter -- Evolution of human semiosis and the reading of animal tracks / Hewes, Gordon W. -- Analysis of a human releasing mechanism / Leyhausen, Paul / Pfleiderer, Jörg -- Early social games reconsidered: Culture at play / Vogel, Susan -- Infant semiosis / Trevarthen, Colwyn -- PART III Glottogenesis: Phylogeny, ontogeny, and actogeny -- Language and the origin of semiosis / Allott, Robin -- Language evolution: A Darwinian process / Bichakjian, Bernard . -- Deep reconstruction of languages and semantics / Shevoroshkin, Vitaly -- Material time and formal time: Genetically and metagenetically / Harweg, Roland -- The agent and the sentient: A dissymmetry in linguistic and cultural encoding / Ikegami, Yoshihiko -- Language and brain / Schnelle, Helmut -- INTERCHAPTER -- Structure as idyll: The genesis of meaning in nature / Posner, Roland -- PART IV Eikonogenesis and graphogenesis -- Constants in 40,000 years of art / Anati, Emmanuel -- Deixis vs. modeling in the phytogeny of artistic behavior / Bouissac, Paul -- Children's drawings: Ontogenetic aspects and phylogenetic roots / Krampen, Martin -- Can a picture tell a thousand words? Interpreting sequential vs. holistic graphic messages / Janney, Richard W. / Arndt, Horst -- Writing, inscription, and text / Wienold, Götz -- PART V Appendix -- List of contributors -- Index of names -- Index of subjects

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Winfried Nöth war bis 2009 Professor für Anglistik/Linguistik und Semiotik sowie Direktor des Wissenschaftlichen Zentrums für Kulturforschung der Universität Kassel. Er ist Professor für Kognitive Semiotik an der Katholischen Universität São Paulo. Er war Präsident der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Semiotik und ist Ehrenmitglied der International Association for Visual Semiotics .