The course provides a basic introduction to history and present state of biosemiotics. Topics of individual classes cover selected schools of biosemiotics, theories or approaches, and selected prominent personalities of biosemiotics. Students will first be acquainted with essentials of molecular biology that form the necessary background for explanation of semiotic status of DNA a proteosynthesis. Accent will then be placed on contemporary description of proteosynthesis. The course will primarily strive to test regularity of semiotic understanding of proteosynthesis, DNA, processes in living shapes, etc., define prerequisites of grammatical description of proteosynthesis. The aim of the course is to analyse individual texts by individual authors and criticise them from the standpoint of semiotics and linguistics. Based on determination of expression and content sets in concepts of analysed texts and application of commutation test, a sustainable semiotic interpretation of DNA and proteosynthesis will be formulated gradually. The course will eventually determine the arbitrary borderline between expression and content sets of DNA and proteosynthesis semiosis formulate concept of double articulation manifested in the structure of the expression set and discuss the issue of finding meta-language suitable for description of the content set. Attention is also given to linguistic and lexico-statistical methods in analysing text and DNA/proteosynthesis, characteristics of language/text/DNA/proteosynthesis, etc. in relation to theory of information and communication ? language and the living shape as systems optimized from transmission of information.
Basic orientation in biosemiotics, its current problems and types of solutions available
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