Thomas Sebeok - Definition and Overview

Thomas Albert Sebeok (born in Budapest, Hungary, on Nov. 9, 1920 - died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a semiotician. He was one of the most prolific and wide-ranging of American semioticians. He expanded the purview of semiotics to include non-human signaling and communication systems thus raising some of the issues addressed by philosophy of mind and coining the term zoosemiotics. He is also the creator of biosemiotics.

External links

• Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Press Release: Thomas A. Sebeok, Senior Fellow at SLIS, Passes On (http://www.slis.indiana.edu/news/story.php?story_id=364) Obituary

Reading

• The Estonian connection (http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/sebeok.htm) by Thomas A. Sebeok