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Thomas Albert Sebeok war ein ungarisch-US-amerikanischer Professor für Semiotik. Zu seinen Schwerpunkten gehörte auch die Untersuchung der Kommunikation von nicht-menschlichen Lebewesen. Außerdem gilt er als Begründer der Biosemiotik.
Thomas Albert Sebeok (Hungarian: Sebők Tamás, pronounced [ˈʃɛbøːk ˈtɒmaːʃ]; November 9, 1920 – December 21, 2001) was a Hungarian-born American polymath, semiotician, and linguist. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] As one of the founders of the biosemiotics field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication. [7]
Thomas A. Sebeok has left semiotics a comprehensive theoretical apparatus for studying semiosis across species and across systems (biological and artificial). Uniting the notions of form, sign, and model into an integrative purview of meaning-making, known as modeling systems theory, Sebeok has provided a conceptual and terminological apparatus ...
- Marcel Danesi
29. Feb. 2008 · Biosemiotics and Modelling Systems Theory. Thomas A. Sebeok is one of the figures who has most contributed to the institutionalization of semiotics internationally, and to its configuration as ‘biosemiotics’, ‘semiotics of life‘, or, as he preferred in his latest book (2001), ‘global semiotics’.
- Susan Angela Petrilli, A. Ponzio
- 2008
Explore the prolific career of Thomas Sebeok, IU professor emeritus and pioneer in semiotics, linguistics, and animal communication through correspondence, visual materials, and more.
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Sebeok started his career as an ethnographer, focusing on the verbal art of anthropology to describe the cultures associated with then-called “primitive” languages. He followed Bloomfield’s linguistics to study Boas’ anthropology of primitive art to investigate man as a civilized member of a native indigenous community with art-like speech habits.
Thomas A. Sebeok’s name became all but synonymous with semiotics during the last half of the twentieth century. Sebeok located neglected semioticians in antiquity, and convinced many contemporary scholars that they were semioticians.
