The first international volume on the topic of biosemiotics and linguistics. It aims to establish a new relationship between linguistics and biology as based on shared semiotic foundation.

Works composed at the intersection of linguistics and biosemiotics (interdisciplinarity)

Language, linguistics - life, biosemiotics...- On biosemiotics and its possible relevance to linguistic.- Language and biosphere: Blurry contours as a condition of semiosis.- Language as primary modeling and natural languages: A biosemiotic perspective.- Umwelt and language.- Verbal patterns: Taming cognitive biology.- Biolinguistics and biosemiotics.- Biology, linguistics, and the semiotic perspective on language.- Before Babel: The evolutionary roots of human language.-  Biosemiotics, politics and Th.A. Sebeok's move from linguistics to semiotics.- How useful is état de langue for biosemiotics? An exploration of linguistic consciousness and evolution in F. de Saussure's works.- Darwin's Ethology and the expression of the emotions: Biosemiotics as a historical science.- Darwin's biosemiotics: The linguistic Rubicon in the Descent of Man.- The Bakhtinian dialogue revisited: A (non-biosemiotic) view from historiography and epistemology of humanities.