Abstract 1 The present chapter is intended to provide an introductory overview to the history
of biosemiotics, contextualizing that history within and against the larger currents of …

How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television
drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and …

This book is a result of 20 years of my interest in reading and thinking about the bizarre
phenomenon of mimicry. This journey has brought me from the standard scientific world …

Reenactments (introduced by) are embodied demonstrations of past events or scenes. In
this article we explore how reenactments are deployed in the course of, and indeed support …

Abstract In 1976, Richard Dawkins coined the term meme as a way to metaphorically project
bio-evolutionary principles upon the processes of cultural and social development. The …

Practically all theories of iconicity are denunciations of its subject matter (for example, those
of Goodman, Bierman and the early Eco). My own theory of iconicity was developed in order …

Donald (2001) argued that mimesis is fundamental to communication and culture. The basic
level of mimetic action is mime—as found, for example, in the imaginative, expressive play of …

There is a great deal of narrative in play and also of play in narrative, especially in the
narrative and play of young children. Part of the reason for this may be that they share an …

The multimodal video meme of the ice-bucket challenge raises a “bucketful” of questions for
media and cultural studies. This article focuses narrowly on unearthing who speaks in this …

Intersemiosis creates the secondary and derivative reproduction of the original text, called
intercode translation or intermedial metacreation (Popovi?, Holmes). Metacreation means …