The Controversy of Umwelt across the Germany-France Border
Resource
中外文學, 34(7), 045-057
Journal
中外文學
Journal Volume
34
Journal Issue
7
Pages
045-057
Date Issued
2005-12
Date
2005-12
Author(s)
Abstract
In his promotion for the international movement of biosemiotics since the 1970s, Thomas A. Sebeok has been consistent to claim Jakob von Uexk?ll's Umwelt as a piece of ultimate evidence. Nevertheless, Sebeok's attempt to subsume all the geo-, bio-, politico-, socio- and semio- phenomena by the master trope of Umwelt has clashed with Umberto Eco's closer looks into the pragmatic conditions of addressee in different cultures. In order to restore the heuristic vitality of Umwelt for a couple of emerging disciplines during the 1920s and 1950s, the author starts with the establishment of Institut f?r Umweltforschung in Hamburg. Through exposing the interpretations and appropriations of Uexk?ll's Umwelt by the philosophers and neurolinguists across the border of Germany and France, the author demonstrates Uexk?ll's Umwelt as a series of codes and signals in biological mechanism, which should be distinguished from the physical world in nature.
Subjects
主體世界
環境
功能循環
詮釋循環
精神分析
溝通
語用學
生命符號學
Umwelt
milieu
functional cycle
hermeneutic circle
psychoanalysis
communication
pragmatics
biosemiotics
Type
journal article
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