<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "Language and the origin of semiosis"^^ . "Language is the type of semiosis which has been most closely examined and which has served as a model for considering other forms of semiosis. Semiotics has been based, certainly in the case of language, very much on the proposition of Saussure that the sign is arbitrary - a questionable idea (Holdcroft 1991) - and that the sign is conventional or social. If this fundamental idea of semiotics, and linguistics, is discarded, what does this do for semiotics, the 'science' of signs ? This paper seeks to trace out the implications for semiotics of a very different account from Saussure's of the origin, development and functioning of language, leaving it open whether one should conclude, in the light of this, that language does not constitute a paradigm or model for a general science of semiotics (and is not a typical or useful example of a semiotic system) or that language should be treated as the paradigm but a totally changed paradigm, so that the new view of language will require a restructuring of semiotics and lead to a much more biological and indeed neurological approach to the science of signs. "^^ . "1994" . . . "Mouton de Gruyter"^^ . . . "Origins of Semiosis: Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "Winfried"^^ . "Nöth"^^ . "Winfried Nöth"^^ . . "Robin"^^ . "Allott"^^ . "Robin Allott"^^ . . . . . . "Language and the origin of semiosis (HTML)"^^ . . . "semiosis.htm"^^ . . . "Language and the origin of semiosis (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #3113 \n\nLanguage and the origin of semiosis\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Semantics" . .