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| '''Thomas Albert Sebeok''' (born '''Sebők''', {{IPA-hu|ˈʃɛbøːk|lang}} November 9, 1920; died December 21, 2001 in ], ]) was a polymath<ref>Cobley, Paul; Deely, John; Kull, Kalevi; Petrilli, Susan (eds.) (2011). ''''. (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition 7.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.</ref> ] ] and ].<ref>[[Jesper Hoffmeyer|Hoffmeyer, | '''Thomas Albert Sebeok''' (born '''Sebők''', {{IPA-hu|ˈʃɛbøːk|lang}} November 9, 1920; died December 21, 2001 in ], ]) was a polymath<ref>Cobley, Paul; Deely, John; Kull, Kalevi; Petrilli, Susan (eds.) (2011). ''''. (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition 7.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.</ref> ] ] and ].<ref>[[Jesper Hoffmeyer|Hoffmeyer, | ||
| Jesper]] (2002). Obituary: Thomas A. Sebeok. '']'' 30(1): 383–385.</ref><ref>McDowell, J. H. (2003). Thomas A. Sebeok (1920-2001). ''Journal of American Folklore''.</ref><ref>Marcel Danesi and Albert Valdman (2004). Thomas A. Sebeok. ''Language''. Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 312-317</ref><ref>Brier S. (2003). Thomas Sebeok: Mister (Bio)semiotics An obituary for Thomas A. Sebeok. ''Cybernetics & Human Knowing'' 10(1): 102-105(4)</ref><ref>Anderson, M. (2003), Thomas Albert Sebeok (1920–2001). ''American Anthropologist'' 105: 228–231.</ref> As one of the founders of the ] field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication.<ref>] (2003). Thomas A. Sebeok and biology: Building biosemiotics. ''Cybernetics and Human Knowing'' 10(1): 47–60.</ref> He is also known for his work in the development of ], in which he worked with the ] (established 1981) to create methods for keeping the inhabitants of Earth away from buried nuclear waste that will still be hazardous 10,000 or more years in the future. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/01sp200a/students/enricaLovaglio/pandora/Pandora.html|title=Pandora's Box: How and Why to Communicate 10,000 Years into the Future|website=www.mat.ucsb.edu}}</ref> | Jesper]] (2002). Obituary: Thomas A. Sebeok. '']'' 30(1): 383–385.</ref><ref>McDowell, J. H. (2003). Thomas A. Sebeok (1920-2001). ''Journal of American Folklore''.</ref><ref>Marcel Danesi and Albert Valdman (2004). Thomas A. Sebeok. ''Language''. Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 312-317</ref><ref>Brier S. (2003). Thomas Sebeok: Mister (Bio)semiotics An obituary for Thomas A. Sebeok. ''Cybernetics & Human Knowing'' 10(1): 102-105(4)</ref><ref>Anderson, M. (2003), Thomas Albert Sebeok (1920–2001). ''American Anthropologist'' 105: 228–231.</ref> As one of the founders of the ] field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication.<ref>] (2003). Thomas A. Sebeok and biology: Building biosemiotics. ''Cybernetics and Human Knowing'' 10(1): 47–60.</ref> He is also known for his work in the development of ], in which he worked with the ] (established 1981) to create methods for keeping the inhabitants of Earth away from buried nuclear waste that will still be hazardous 10,000 or more years in the future. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/academic/courses/01sp200a/students/enricaLovaglio/pandora/Pandora.html|title=Pandora's Box: How and Why to Communicate 10,000 Years into the Future|website=www.mat.ucsb.edu}}</ref> '''hyperlink to the term polymath as it is possible people might not know it''' | ||
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== Early live and education == | ||
| Thomas Sebeok was born on November 9, 1920 in ], ]. He moved to the ] at the age of 17 and became a ] in 1944. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-07-me-20890-story.html/|title=Thomas Sebeok, 81; Linguist Debunked Theory About Apes|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-12}}</ref> | Thomas Sebeok was born on November 9, 1920 in ], ]. He moved to the ] at the age of 17 and became a ] in 1944. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-07-me-20890-story.html/|title=Thomas Sebeok, 81; Linguist Debunked Theory About Apes|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-12}}</ref> | ||
| Sebeok earned a bachelor's degree in 1941 at the ]. He earned a master's degree in ] at ] in 1943 and, in 1945, a doctorate at ] |
Sebeok earned a bachelor's degree in 1941 at the ]. He earned a master's degree in ] at ] in 1943 and, in 1945, a doctorate at ].<ref name=IUarchive/> | ||
| In 1943, he started work at Indiana University in Bloomington, assisting the ] ] in managing the country's largest Army Specialized Training Program in foreign languages. He then created the university's department of ] and ] Studies, covering the languages of Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia. He was also the chair of the university's Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies. Sebeok married Donna Jean Umiker (born 1946, now D. Jean Umiker-Sebeok), a fellow semiotic scholar and his frequent collaborator and co-author, in 1976. He retired in 1991.<ref name=IUarchive>{{Cite web|url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Ar-VAE0871|title=Thomas Sebeok papers, 1940-2001 and undated; A Guide to his Papers at the Indiana University Archives|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-12}}</ref> | |||
| == Linguist work == | |||
| '''I'm not sure this is the correct heading title - maybe just Work? or something like that?''' | |||
| As a professor at Indiana University, Sebeok studied both human and non-human systems of signaling and communication, as well as the ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.semioticsocietyofamerica.org/index.php/sebeok-fellow-award/|title=Sebeok Fellow Award – Semiotic Society of America|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref> He was among the founders of ], and coined the term "]" in 1963 to describe the development of signals and signs by non-human animal species.<ref>] 2014. Zoosemiotics is the study of animal forms of knowing. ''Semiotica'' 198: 47–60.</ref> He also continued his work as a linguist, publishing several articles and books analyzing aspects of the ] (referring to it by the name "Cheremis"). His transdisciplinary work and professional collaborations spanned the fields of anthropology, biology, folklore studies, linguistics, psychology, and semiotics.<ref name=":0" /> | As a professor at Indiana University, Sebeok studied both human and non-human systems of signaling and communication, as well as the ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.semioticsocietyofamerica.org/index.php/sebeok-fellow-award/|title=Sebeok Fellow Award – Semiotic Society of America|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-11}}</ref> He was among the founders of ], and coined the term "]" in 1963 to describe the development of signals and signs by non-human animal species.<ref>] 2014. Zoosemiotics is the study of animal forms of knowing. ''Semiotica'' 198: 47–60.</ref> He also continued his work as a linguist, publishing several articles and books analyzing aspects of the ] (referring to it by the name "Cheremis"). His transdisciplinary work and professional collaborations spanned the fields of anthropology, biology, folklore studies, linguistics, psychology, and semiotics.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
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| Sebeok's personal library on semiotics, comprising more than 4,000 volumes of books and 700 journals, is preserved at the Department of Semiotics at the ] in Estonia.<ref>. '']'', 10-10-2011. {{in lang|et}}</ref> His correspondance and research files are held by the Indiana University Archives.<ref name=IUarchive/> | Sebeok's personal library on semiotics, comprising more than 4,000 volumes of books and 700 journals, is preserved at the Department of Semiotics at the ] in Estonia.<ref>. '']'', 10-10-2011. {{in lang|et}}</ref> His correspondance and research files are held by the Indiana University Archives.<ref name=IUarchive/> | ||
| == Personal life == | |||
| Sebeok married Donna Jean Umiker (born 1946, now D. Jean Umiker-Sebeok), a fellow semiotic scholar and his frequent collaborator and co-author, in 1976. He retired in 1991.<ref name=IUarchive>{{Cite web|url=http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Ar-VAE0871|title=Thomas Sebeok papers, 1940-2001 and undated; A Guide to his Papers at the Indiana University Archives|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-12}}</ref> | |||
| == Sebook award == | |||
| The "Sebeok fellow" award is the highest honor given by the ]. The complete list of Sebeok fellows (with year of awarding): | |||
| # ] (1992) | |||
| # ] (1993) | |||
| # Paul Bouissac (1996) | |||
| # ] (2000) | |||
| # ] (2003) | |||
| # Floyd Merrell (2005) | |||
| # ] (2008) | |||
| # ] (2011) | |||
| # Paul Cobley (2014) | |||
| # Vincent Colapietro (2018) | |||
| '''Who won in 2019?''' | |||
| ==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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Thomas Albert Sebeok (born Sebők, Hungarian: [ˈʃɛbøːk] November 9, 1920; died December 21, 2001 in Bloomington, Indiana) was a polymath American semiotician and linguist. As one of the founders of the biosemiotics field, he studied non-human and cross-species signaling and communication. He is also known for his work in the development of Long-time nuclear waste warning messages, in which he worked with the Human Interference Task Force (established 1981) to create methods for keeping the inhabitants of Earth away from buried nuclear waste that will still be hazardous 10,000 or more years in the future. hyperlink to the term polymath as it is possible people might not know it
Early live and education
Thomas Sebeok was born on November 9, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary. He moved to the United States at the age of 17 and became a naturalized citizen in 1944. Sebeok earned a bachelor's degree in 1941 at the University of Chicago. He earned a master's degree in anthropological linguistics at Princeton University in 1943 and, in 1945, a doctorate at Princeton University.
In 1943, he started work at Indiana University in Bloomington, assisting the Amerindianist Carl Voegelin in managing the country's largest Army Specialized Training Program in foreign languages. He then created the university's department of Uralic and Altaic Studies, covering the languages of Eastern Europe, Russia and Asia. He was also the chair of the university's Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies. Sebeok married Donna Jean Umiker (born 1946, now D. Jean Umiker-Sebeok), a fellow semiotic scholar and his frequent collaborator and co-author, in 1976. He retired in 1991.
Linguist work
I'm not sure this is the correct heading title - maybe just Work? or something like that? As a professor at Indiana University, Sebeok studied both human and non-human systems of signaling and communication, as well as the philosophy of mind. He was among the founders of biosemiotics, and coined the term "zoosemiotics" in 1963 to describe the development of signals and signs by non-human animal species. He also continued his work as a linguist, publishing several articles and books analyzing aspects of the Mari language (referring to it by the name "Cheremis"). His transdisciplinary work and professional collaborations spanned the fields of anthropology, biology, folklore studies, linguistics, psychology, and semiotics.
Sebeok was the editor-in-chief of the journal Semiotica, the leading periodical in the field, from its establishing in 1969 until 2001. He was also the editor of several book series and encyclopedias, including Approaches to Semiotics (over 100 volumes), Current Trends in Linguistics, and the Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics.
In the early 1980s, Sebeok composed a report for the US Office of Nuclear Waste Management titled Communication Measures To Bridge Ten Millennia, discussing solutions to the problem of nuclear semiotics, a system of signs aimed at warning future civilizations from entering geographic areas contaminated by nuclear waste. The report proposed a "folkloric relay system" and the establishment of an "atomic priesthood" of physicists, anthropologists, and semioticians to create and preserve a common cultural narrative of the hazardous nature of nuclear waste sites.
In addition to his academic work, Sebeok organized hundreds of international conferences and institutes, held leadership roles in organizations such as the Linguistic Society of America, International Association for Semiotic Studies and the Semiotic Society of America, and supported the creation of linguistic and semiotics teaching programs and scholarly associations throughout the world. The Sebeok Fellow Award "recognizes outstanding contributions to the development of the doctrine of signs" and is the highest honor given by the Semiotic Society of America. Notable awardees include David Savan (1992), John Deely (1993), Jesper Hoffmeyer (2000), Kalevi Kull (2003), Susan Petrilli (2008), and Irmengard Rauch (2011).
Sebeok's personal library on semiotics, comprising more than 4,000 volumes of books and 700 journals, is preserved at the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia. His correspondance and research files are held by the Indiana University Archives.
Personal life
Sebeok married Donna Jean Umiker (born 1946, now D. Jean Umiker-Sebeok), a fellow semiotic scholar and his frequent collaborator and co-author, in 1976. He retired in 1991.
Sebook award
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):
- David Savan (1992)
- John Deely (1993)
- Paul Bouissac (1996)
- Jesper Hoffmeyer (2000)
- Kalevi Kull (2003)
- Floyd Merrell (2005)
- Susan Petrilli (2008)
- Irmengard Rauch (2011)
- Paul Cobley (2014)
- Vincent Colapietro (2018)
Who won in 2019?
Bibliography
- Eco, Umberto; Sebeok, Thomas A., eds. (1984), The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Bloomington, IN: History Workshop, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-35235-4, 236 pages. Ten essays on methods of abductive inference in Poe's Dupin, Doyle's Holmes, Peirce and many others.
References
- Cobley, Paul; Deely, John; Kull, Kalevi; Petrilli, Susan (eds.) (2011). Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs. (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition 7.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
- Hoffmeyer, Jesper (2002). Obituary: Thomas A. Sebeok. Sign Systems Studies 30(1): 383–385.
- McDowell, J. H. (2003). Thomas A. Sebeok (1920-2001). Journal of American Folklore.
- Marcel Danesi and Albert Valdman (2004). Thomas A. Sebeok. Language. Vol. 80, No. 2, pp. 312-317
- Brier S. (2003). Thomas Sebeok: Mister (Bio)semiotics An obituary for Thomas A. Sebeok. Cybernetics & Human Knowing 10(1): 102-105(4)
- Anderson, M. (2003), Thomas Albert Sebeok (1920–2001). American Anthropologist 105: 228–231.
- Kull, Kalevi (2003). Thomas A. Sebeok and biology: Building biosemiotics. Cybernetics and Human Knowing 10(1): 47–60.
- "Pandora's Box: How and Why to Communicate 10,000 Years into the Future". www.mat.ucsb.edu.
- "Thomas Sebeok, 81; Linguist Debunked Theory About Apes". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Thomas Sebeok papers, 1940-2001 and undated; A Guide to his Papers at the Indiana University Archives". Retrieved 12 April 2020.
- ^ "Sebeok Fellow Award – Semiotic Society of America". Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- Kull, Kalevi 2014. Zoosemiotics is the study of animal forms of knowing. Semiotica 198: 47–60.
- Watt, W. (2006). Thomas A. Sebeok: In memoriam Semiotica, Issue, 1-525. Retrieved 2 Mar. 2012, from doi:10.1515/semi.2003.091
- Thomas A. Sebeok (1984). Communication Measures to Bridge Ten Millennia. Columbus, Ohio: Battelle Memorial Institute, Office of Nuclear Waste Isolation. OSTI 6705990.
- Umberto Eco (1995). The search for the perfect language. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 176–177. ISBN 0-631-17465-6.
- Lapidos, Juliet (16 November 2009). "Atomic priesthoods, thorn landscapes, and Munchian pictograms". Slate. Retrieved 19 September 2009.
- *Cobley, Paul; Deely, John; Kull, Kalevi; Petrilli, Susan (eds.) 2011. Semiotics Continues to Astonish: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Doctrine of Signs. (Semiotics, Communication and Cognition 7.) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
- Gift from an illustrious semiotician enriches Tartu University. Postimees, 10-10-2011. (in Estonian)
External links
- Indiana University School of Library and Information Science Press Release: Thomas A. Sebeok, Senior Fellow at SLIS, Passes On Obituary
- The Estonian connection by Thomas A. Sebeok
