Eto/biologia w dyskursie (zoo)semiotycznym

Abstract

The following article is devoted to a symbiosis of biology and semiotics, which contributed to the establishment of various inter-disciplinary areas of knowledge and trends within broadly understood semiotics: ecosemiotics (cultural and biological), biosemiotics (endosemiotics / exosemiotics), biological semiotics / semiotic biology and zoosemiotics. The author focuses on the latter. She concentrates mainly on Yuri Lotman’s works wherein numerous connections between biology and ethology can be found. An eminent Estonian biosemiotics professor Kalevi Kull has analyzed these connections in an article. The author comes to the conclusion that Lotman largely contributed to the development of zoosemiotics in Russia and Estonia.