The material bases of meaning  The Material Bases of Meaning 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2453986B

  Author(s)

  Prodi, Giorgio

  City

  Tartu 

  Country

  Estonia 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9789949035649 

  Date of Publication

  2021 

  Publisher

  University of Tartu Press  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  217 

  Series

  Tartu semiotics library 22

  Subject

  Philology / Linguistics

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Prodi, Giorgio

  Publisher

  University of Tartu Press  

• Description

  The Material Bases of Meaning Contemporary semiotics has often gone too far in proposing language as the model to explain every phenomenon of communication. Giorgio Prodi’s seminal book, originally published in Italian in 1977, poses the question from the opposite perspective: his ‘natural history of meaning’ does not depict a biological universe that behaves as if it spoke, but a cultural universe structured even at its highest levels according to the same modes and processes of mutual adaptation and ‘reading’ that happen at the level of cells.