Biosemiotics

期刊简介：Biosemiotics is dedicated to building a bridge between biology, philosophy, linguistics, and the communication sciences. Biosemiotic research is concerned with the study of signs and meaning in living organisms and systems. Its main challenge is to naturalize biological meaning and information by building on the belief that signs are fundamental, constitutive components of the living world.Biosemiotics has triggered rethinking of fundamental assumptions in both biology and semiotics. In this view, biology should recognize the semiotic nature of life and reshape its theories and methodology accordingly while semiotics and the humanities should acknowledge the existence of signs beyond the human realm. Biosemiotics is at the cutting edge of research on the fundamentals of life. By challenging traditional assumptions on the nature of life and suggesting alternative perspectives, it opens up exciting new research paths.

【译文】生物符号学致力于在生物学、哲学、语言学和传播科学之间架起一座桥梁。生物符号学研究的是生物体和系统中符号和意义的研究。其主要挑战是通过建立符号是生活世界基本、构成性组成部分的信念，使生物意义和信息自然化。生物符号学引发了生物学和符号学基本假设的重新思考。从这一观点来看，生物学应该认识到生命的符号性质，并相应地重塑其理论和方法论，而符号学和人文科学应该承认人类领域之外的符号存在。生物符号学是生命基础研究的前沿。通过挑战关于生命本质的传统假设，并提出替代观点，它开辟了令人兴奋的新研究途径。