Experimental Semiotics

Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication

Editors

Bruno Galantucci | Yeshiva University & Haskins Laboratories

Simon Garrod | University of Glasgow

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ISBN 9789027202642 | EUR 85.00 | USD 128.00

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In the early twentieth century, Ferdinand de Saussure envisioned "a science which studies the role of signs as part of social life". About a century later, a science has emerged that is very much in the spirit of that envisioned by de Saussure. Researchers who are developing this science, which has been labeled Experimental Semiotics, conduct controlled studies in which human adults develop novel communication systems or impose novel structure on systems provided to them.

This volume offers a primer to Experimental Semiotics and presents a set of studies conducted within this new discipline. The volume is an ideal text complement for an advanced graduate seminar and it will be of interest to anyone who wonders how humans assemble and develop new ways to communicate with one another.

Originally published in Interaction Studies 11:1 (2010).

[Benjamins Current Topics, 45] 2012. v, 161 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 August 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.45

Table of Contents

Experimental semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication

Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod | pp. 1–14

Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems

Carrie Ann Theisen-White, Jon Oberlander and Simon Kirby | pp. 15–32

Can iterated learning explain the emergence of graphical symbols?

Simon Garrod, Nicolas Fay, Shane Rogers, Bradley Walker and Nik Swoboda | pp. 33–50

Exploring the cognitive infrastructure of communication

J.P. de Ruiter, Matthijs L. Noordzij, Sarah Newman-Norlund, Roger Newman-Norlund, Peter Hagoort, Stephen C. Levinson and Ivan Toni | pp. 51–78

The evolution of communication: Humans may be exceptional

Thomas C. Scott-Phillips | pp. 79–100

The effects of rapidity of fading on communication systems

Bruno Galantucci, Christian Kroos and Theo Rhodes | pp. 101–112

Investigating how cultural transmission leads to the appearance of design without a designer in human communication systems

Hannah Cornish | pp. 113–138

An experimental study of social selection and frequency of interaction in linguistic diversity

Gareth Roberts | pp. 139–160

Index | pp. 161–162

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2019. Analyzing Visual Metaphor and Metonymy to Understand Creativity in Fashion. Frontiers in Psychology 9

Roberts, Gareth & Bruno Galantucci

2016. Investigating Meaning in Experimental Semiotics. Psychology of Language and Communication 20:2 ► pp. 130 ff.

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