ABSTRACT
This chapter first discusses the biosemiosic basis of communication and the relation between communication and human being. Global semiotics is focused on the "semiosphere". It is in a position to evidence the extension and consistency of the sign network, which includes the cultural semiosphere as constructed by human beings. The chapter also explores the relation between global semiotics and today's global communication. Global semiotics must be adequately founded in cognitive semiotics, but it must also open to one of the dimensions beyond the quantitative and the theoretical, namely, the "semioethical". The chapter then introduces a new form of humanism. Semioethics is related to this form of humanism. Semiotics sheds light on the humanism of otherness by evidencing the extension and consistency of the sign network which interconnects each human being with every other. Reasonableness, creativity, agape are all grounded in the logic of otherness and dialogism, and together must move the evolutionary dynamics of human semiosis globally.
