Martin Krampen
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Martin Krampen is a leading German semiotician, semiotics
Professor in Göttingen. He has worked in the field of visual semiotics
and environmental perception, also as a professional artist, but he became well-known as the one who established the field of phytosemiotics
(study of vegetative semiosis
), later becoming an important branch of semiotic biology or biosemiotics
. He is a co-editor of Zeitschrift für Semiotik.
Semiotics
Semiotics, also called semiotic studies or semiology, is the study of signs and sign processes , indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication...
Professor in Göttingen. He has worked in the field of visual semiotics
Visual semiotics
"Surrounded with symbols, images and various signs, human being has always strived to signify them and utilized for communication. The meaning comes out of an interaction between message and its reader...
and environmental perception, also as a professional artist, but he became well-known as the one who established the field of phytosemiotics
Phytosemiotics
Phytosemiotics is a branch of biosemiotics that studies the sign processes in plants, or more broadly, the vegetative semiosis. Vegetative semiosis is a type of sign processes that occurs at cellular and tissue level, including cellular recognition, plant perception, plant signal transduction,...
(study of vegetative semiosis
Semiosis
Semiosis is any form of activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. Briefly – semiosis is sign process...
), later becoming an important branch of semiotic biology or biosemiotics
Biosemiotics
Biosemiotics is a growing field that studies the production, action and interpretation of signs in the biological realm...
. He is a co-editor of Zeitschrift für Semiotik.