ABSTRACT
Neurosemiotics constitutes an emergent transdisciplinary framework to redefine semiotic explanations. We first discuss how this goal has been hindered by historical tensions across biological and cultural levels. Next, we identify outstanding challenges and summarize how they are tackled across the handbook’s four parts. Part I surveys the historical, epistemological, theoretical, and methodological foundations of neurosemiotics. Part II addresses how language intersects with bodily, situational, and otherwise experiential mechanisms. Part III explores the multidimensional connections between social and biological dynamics. Part IV delves into other daily semiotic phenomena. Rich in theoretical, methodological, and translational implications, neurosemiotics expounds novel transdisciplinary links among semiosis, communication, biology, and culture.
