Bridging the disciplines: How Semiotics is the glue to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects
This talk examines the role of Semiotics in bridging otherwise disparate fields to provide critical and practical solutions to our contemporary problems. As others have demonstrated, Semiotics is an essential discipline that provides insights to the way we gain and interpret meaning, how we produce it, and why. Because of its rigorous underpinnings and its analytical flexibilities, it is an essential tool with which to observe and seek connections where often times we assume there are none. In order to provide critical examples of this, two case studies will be examined. The first, a case study on the use of humanoid robotics and language in Autism Spectrum Disorder via cognitive semiotics. The second, the evolutionary questioning of the human semiotic ability as seen through eco and biosemiotics.