基本説明
This volume offers a primer to Experimental Semiotics and presents a set of studies conducted within this new discipline.
Full Description
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).
Contents
1. Experimental semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication (by Galantucci, Bruno); 2. Systematicity and arbitrariness in novel communication systems (by Theisen-White, Carrie Ann); 3. Can iterated learning explain the emergence of graphical symbols? (by Garrod, Simon); 4. Exploring the cognitive infrastructure of communication (by Ruiter, Jan Peter de); 5. The evolution of communication: Humans may be exceptional (by Scott-Phillips, Thomas C.); 6. The effects of rapidity of fading on communication systems (by Galantucci, Bruno); 7. Investigating how cultural transmission leads to the appearance of design without a designer in human communication systems (by Cornish, Hannah); 8. An experimental study of social selection and frequency of interaction in linguistic diversity (by Roberts, Gareth); 9. Index
