Mimicry and meaning : structure and semiotics of biological mimicry / Timo Maran.
Maran, Timo, 1975- author.
2017
QH546
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Title Mimicry and meaning : structure and semiotics of biological mimicry / Timo Maran.
Author Maran, Timo, 1975- author.
ISBN 9783319503172 (electronic book)
3319503170 (electronic book)
9783319503158
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50317-2
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-50317-2 doi
Call Number QH546
Dewey Decimal Classification 591.47/3
Summary The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis. It is proposed that mimicry has a double structure where sign relations in communication are in constant interplay with ecological relations between species. Multi-constructivism and toolbox-like conceptual methods are advocated for, as these allow taking into account both the participantsℓ́ℓ Umwelten as well as cultural meanings related to specific mimicry cases. From biosemiotic viewpoint, mimicry is a sign relation, where deceptively similar messages are perceived, interpreted and acted upon. Focusing on living subjects and their communication opens up new ways to understand mimicry. Such view helps to explain the diversity of mimicry as well as mimicry studies and treat these in a single framework. On a meta-level, a semiotic view allows critical reflection on the use of mimicry concept in modern biology. The author further discusses interpretations of mimicry in contemporary semiotics, analyses mimicry as communicative interaction, relates mimicry to iconic signs and focuses on abstract resemblances in mimicry. Theoretical discussions are illustrated with detailed excursions into practical mimicry cases in nature (brood parasitism, eyespots, myrmecomorphy, etc.). The book concludes with a conviction that mimicry should be treated in a broader semiotic-ecological context as it presumes the existence of ecological codes and other sign conventions in the ecosystem.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 24, 2017).
Series Biosemiotics ; v. 16.
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1 Biosemiotics of mimicry: introductory notes
2 First excursion: the history of the mimicry concept
3 The structure of mimicry
4 Semiotics of mimicry
5 Iconicity and mimicry
6 Second excursion: importance of the object
7 Different perspectives in mimicry system
8 Modelling mimicry.-9 Mimicry and semiotic evolution
10 Third excursion: an epistemology of the uncertain
11 From abstract mimicry to ecological codes
12 Conclusions .

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