Its various chapters chart the foundations of neurosemiotics characterize linguistic and interpersonal dynamics as shaped by neurocognitive, bodily, situational, and societal factors and examine other daily neurosemiotic occurrences driven by faces, music, tools, and even visceral signals. Bringing together perspectives from world-leading experts, this volume seeks to overcome these disciplinary divides between the social and the natural sciences at both the empirical and theoretical levels.
Yet, each of these dyads has been segregated into discipline-specific topics, with attempts to chart their intersections proving preliminary at best. Daniel Chamovitz, award-winning author of What a Plant Knows and Director of the Manna Center for Plant Biosciences at Tel Aviv University.This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture.Īcross individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological dimensions. Semiosis will remain relevant for years to come." - Prof. "A gripping story of colonization and biological wonders." - Gregory Frost, author of the Shadowbridge novels
"Sue Burke has created one of the most fascinating alien personae science fiction has seen in this decade." David Nichols, early American historian and author of Engines of Diplomacy The kind of story for which science fiction was invented." - James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards "A first contact novel like none you've ever read. "In Semiosis, Sue Burke blends science with adventure and fascinating characters, as a human colony desperately seeks to join the ecosystem of an alien world." - David Brin, author of Earth and Existence "This is top class SF, intelligent and engaging and I loved every moment of it." - Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. "Intelligent, riveting and ultimately uplifting, Semiosis asks big questions and gives satisfying answers." - Emma Newman, author Planetfall "An outstanding science-fiction novel hobbled by its rushed story structure." - Kirkus "This first-contact tale is extraordinary."- Library Journal
"Burke's world building is exceptional, and her ability to combine the intricacies of colonization with the science of botany and theories of mutualism and predation is astounding." - Booklist
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