Signs Grow: Semiosis and Life Processes

by Floyd Merrell

Book Overview

This is the third volume in Floyd Merrell's trilogy on semiotics focusing on Peirce's categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In this book the author argues that there are passageways linking the social sciences with the physical sciences, and signs with life processes. This is not a study of the semiotics of life, but rather of semiosis as a living process. Merrell attempts to articulate the links between thought that is rooted in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802071422
• ISBN13: 9780802071422
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.0"