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Thomas Sebeok
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Thomas Albert Sebeok (born in Budapest, Hungary, on November 9, 1920; died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a prolific and wide-ranging of semiotician. He expanded the purview of semiotics to include non-human signaling and communication systems, coining the term "zoosemiotics" and raising some of the issues addressed by the philosophy of mind. He was also the creator of biosemiotics.
Based on his field of competence Sebeok tended to reject the experiments on the putative linguistic abilities of apes, such as those described by David Premack, assuming the existence of a deeper, more universal and more meaningful underlying substrate: the “semiotic function”.
In 1944, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Sebeok was the editor-in-chief of the journal "Semiotica", the leading periodical in the field, from its establishing in 1969, until 2001.
The "Sebeok fellow" award is the highest honor given by the Semiotic Society of America. The complete list of Sebeok fellows (with year of awarding): 1. David Savan (1992) 2. John Deely (1993) 3. Paul Bouissac (1996) 4. Jesper Hoffmeyer (2000) 5. Kalevi Kull (2003) 6. Floyd Merrell (2005)
- Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Press Release: Thomas A. Sebeok, Senior Fellow at SLIS, Passes On Obituary
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