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In the study of the biological sciences the general term Biocommunication is used to describe more specific types of communication within or between species of plants, animals, fungi and bacteria1. Communication means sign-medited interactions following syntactic, pragmatic and semantic rules. Signs in most cases are chemical molecules (semiochemicals). Biocommunication of animals may include mechanisms as vocalizations (as between competing bird species), pheromone production (as between various species of insects),2chemical signals between plants and animals (as in tannin production used by vascular plants to warn away insects), and chemically mediated communication between plants3 4 and within plants.5
Biocommunication and Linguistics
In the study of linguistics, abstract biocommunication theory may be considered to be a form of biosemiotics, and a subdiscipline of semiotic theory. In contrast to biosemiotics biocommunication theory investigates action theoretical aspects and the role of the sign-user being part of a sign-using community apriori, primarely (primacy of pragmatics). Accordingly, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspect of biocommunication processes are distinguished.6 Biocommunication specific to animals (animal communication) is considered a branch of zoosemiotics.7 The semiotic study of molecular genetics, can be considered a study of biocommunication at its most basic level. 8
The scientific study of biocommunication as a subfield of semiotics has been introduced by Charles W. Morris and Thomas A. Sebeok, and currently developed by the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies.
Notes
- ^ Witzany, G. (2007) The Logos of the Bios 2. Bio-communication. Helsinki, Umweb
- ^ Ananthakrishnan, T (1998). Biocommunication in Insects, Science Publishers Inc. pp. 104. ISBN: 1578080312.
- ^ Taiz, Lincoln; Eduardo Zeiger (2002). "Plant Physiology Online" (HTTP). a companion to Plant Physiology, Third Edition. Sinauer Associates. Retrieved on 2006-12-26.
- ^ Farmer, EE; CA Ryan (1990). "Interplant Communication: Airborne Methyl Jasmonate Induces Synthesis of Proteinase Inhibitors in Plant Leaves". Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (National Academy of Sciences USA) 87 (19): 7713–7716. doi:, http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/87/19/7713. Retrieved on 31 December 2006.
- ^ Witzany, G. (2006). Plant Communication from Biosemiotic Perspective. Plant Signaling & Behavior 1 (4): 169-178.[1]
- ^ Tembrock, Günter 1971. Biokommunikation: Informationsübertragung im biologischen Bereich. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.
- ^ Sebeok, Thomas (ed.) 1977. How Animals Communicate. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- ^ Emmeche, Claus; Jesper Hoffmeyer (1991). "From Language to Nature - the semiotic metaphor in biology" (HTML). Semiotica 84 (1/2): 1-42, 1991. Retrieved on 2006-12-31.
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