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semiosphere

semiosphere noun: the sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts; The domain of all signs that represent and define a culture.

Noun

semiosphere (plural semiospheres)

  1. The sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts; The domain of all signs that represent and define a culture.
    • 2003 Iu. M. Lotman, Edna Andrews - Conversations With Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition
      Lotman's conceptualization of the semiosphere was inspired by Vernadsky's and Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the biosphere and the noosphere.
    • The semiotic experience in the semiosphere, according to Lotman, precedes the production of discourses because it is one of their conditions. The semiosphere is above all the domain that allows culture to define itself and to situate itself, in order to be able to dialogue with other cultures; it...2006, Jacques Fontanille, The Semiotics of Discourse, →ISBN, page 205

Examples of semiosphere in a sentence

  • The semiotic experience in the semiosphere, according to Lotman, precedes the production of discourses because it is one of their conditions.2006, Jacques Fontanille, The Semiotics of Discourse, →ISBN, page 205:
  • The category of boundary leads to two further characteristics of semiosphere: binarism and asymmetry.2011, Claus Emmeche, Kalevi Kull, Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the Action of Signs, →ISBN, page 183:

Forms of semiosphere

pluralsemiospheres

Origin of semiosphere

From semio- + -sphere.

Questions about semiosphere

What does semiosphere mean?
Semiosphere means the sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts; The domain of all signs that represent and define a culture.
How do you use semiosphere in a sentence?
The semiotic experience in the semiosphere, according to Lotman, precedes the production of discourses because it is one of their conditions.
What part of speech is semiosphere?
Semiosphere is a noun.
What is the plural of semiosphere?
The plural of semiosphere is semiospheres.

Words near semiosphere in the dictionary

  1. semioriental
  2. semiorthogonal
  3. semiosic
  4. semiosis
  5. semiosises
  6. semiosphere
  7. semiospheres
  8. semiosseous
  9. semiostracism
  10. semiotic
  11. semiotical

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