The semiotic analysis of sculptures, paintings, and photographs constitutes yet another source for deciphering the meanings of love. The philosopher Plotinus claimed that art revealed the true nature of an object more accurately than just viewing it with the eyes,
Presents a new approach to multiculturalism that is grounded in biosemiotics Addresses contemporary and pressing questions in semiotic and multicultural research Offers a much-needed pluralistic logic for developing an altruistic mentality Raises a new epistemological awareness. This highly readable book develops a numanistic,
To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following
The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in