Cybersemiotician Brier (international culture and communication, Copenhagen Business School) is honored by 15 studies in the broad areas of his interest. Among them are a functional discourse of pragmatics contribution to the cybersemiotic star, conversation and its erosion into discourse and computation, meanings and the vagueness of their embodiments, the organization of biosemiotics and some challenges for academic inquiry, and the semiotic of knowledge representation. Contributors are identified only by name. There is no index. The book is self-published and distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A festscrift made to honour the great scholarly work of Professor Soren Brier. It contains articles written by international scholars within academic fields such as: semiotics, library and information science, order cybernetics, ethics in science, metaphysics.
From First to Third via Cybersemiotics is a festschrift honoring the great scholarly work of Professor Soren Brier, professor in Semiotics of Information, Cognition, and Communication Science, with special responsibilities at the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies at Copenhagen Business School. He is affiliated with the Center for Language, Cognition, and Mentality (LaCoMe). The festschrift contains articles written by international scholars within the academic fields of semiotics, library and information science, second order cybernetics, ethics in science, and metaphysics. All these different, yet related, topics show the diversity and depth of Professor Brier's research.
