Biosemiotics, politics and Th.A. Sebeok's move from linguistics to semiotics

Sara Cannizzaro

Paul Cobley

pp. 207-222

in: Ekaterina Velmezova, Kalevi Kull, Stephen J. Cowley (eds), Biosemiotic perspectives on language and linguistics, Berlin, Springer, 2015

Abstract

In contrast to the post-"linguistic turn" idea that the world is "constructed in discourse", we will argue that biosemiotics entails a reconfiguration of the polis and, in particular, offers the chance to completely reconceptualise ideology.

Cited authors

Sebeok Thomas