ABSTRACT
Thomas A. Sebeok is among the figures of the twentieth century who has most contributed to the development of sign, language, and communication studies, to the institutionalization of semiotics internationally and to its configuration as “semiotics of life” or “global semiotics.” His studies at the intersection between the life sciences and the sign sciences led to the introduction of “zoosemiotics,” in 1963, promotion of “biosemiotics,” and ultimately to his original proposal of “global semiotics.” The expression “global semiotics” was first introduced by Sebeok as the title of a paper of 1994 and subsequently reiterated as the title of a monograph published in 2001, with which he sealed his legacy to the community of researchers. 1
