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Table of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Evolution and biosemiosis
- Breathing life into signs: Ways and means of semiosic transition and transformation
- Semiotic principles and systems: Biological foundations of semiotics
- Opposition at the roots of semiosis
- Primate nonverbal communication: Our communicative heritage
- Part II: Anthroposemiotic sociogenesis and cultural semiogenesis
- The problem of certainty in human communication: An evolutionary view
- The culture of nature: The semiotic dimension of microcosm, mesocosm, and macrocosm
- Evolution of human semiosis and the reading of animal tracks
- Analysis of a human releasing mechanism
- Early social games reconsidered: Culture at play
- Infant semiosis
- Part III: Glottogenesis: Phylongeny, ontogeny, and actogeny
- Language and the origin of semiosis
- Language evolution: A Darwinian process
- Deep reconstruction of languages and semantics
- Material time and formal time: Genetically and metagenetically
- The agent and the sentient: A dissymmetry in linguistic and cultural encoding
- Language and brain
- Interchapter
- Structure as idyll: The genesis of meaning in nature
- Part IV: Eikonogenesis and graphogenesis
- Constants in 40,000 years of art
- Deixis vs. modeling in the phylogeny of artistic behavior
- Children’s drawings: Ontogenetic aspects and phylogenetic roots
- Can a picture tell a thousand words? Interpreting sequential vs. holistic graphic messages
- Writing, inscription, and text
- Part V: Appendix
- List of contributors
- Index of names
- Index of subjects