Biosemiotics
Subtitle: The Semiotic Web 1991 (Approaches to Semiotics)
Contributors: Jean Umiker-Sebeok (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: July 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9783110129472
Subjects: Linguistic semiotics; Semiotics; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Language; Semiotics & Theory
First sentence: As humans hurtle through the space of their makeshift calendars toward that dreadful, magical millennium-marker of 2001, the concern the Western habit ordinarily reserves for the human caught up in Edens and Armageddons has been extended, or displaced perhaps, to their earthly substrate, Gaia, and to their genes, their biological substrate.