Cybersemiotics, a transdisciplinary view on communication, information, signification, and cognition

Carlos Vidales

doi:10.2478/lf-2022-0004

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Cybersemiotics, a transdisciplinary view on communication, information, signification, and cognition

Linguistic Frontiers

Volume 5 (2022): Issue 1 (June 2022)

By: Carlos Vidales

Open Access

|Jul 2022

Abstract

The present commentary addresses cybersemiotics, a transdisciplinary theory of communication, signification, information, and cognition which is based on the work of Danish scholar Søren Brier. Cybersemiotics is a metatheory that encompasses the research programs of information theory, first and second-order cybernetics, Luhmann’s systems theory, cognitive sciences, Peircean biosemiotics, pragmatic linguistics, and language game theory. I will explore some of these theoretical frameworks and how cybersemiotics integrates them.

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