Estonian Research Council’s grant PRG1504, (2019-2023)
Semiotic fitting as a mechanism of biocultural diversity: instability and sustainability in novel environments
The impact on diversity by the survival of a new agent in a semiotic system largely depends on the fitting of its communicative relations (sign relations) into the novel environment. We call this process semiotic fitting.
The goal
Our project aims to discover the general features of semiotic fitting that characterise its effect on diversity in ecological, cultural and virtual systems. To solve this task, we are going to elaborate a general conception and a model of semiotic fitting.
Focus of the project
In order to test the hypothesis that semiotic fitting is an important mechanism to ensure diversity in different areas, we study the formation of semiotic diversity in detail: