2017 · Volume 10 · issue 1 cognitiVe semiotics

editor-in-chief Peer F. Bundgaard, ,

associate editors Merlin Donald, Queen’s University, Canada Bruno Galantucci, Yeshiva University, USA Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve University, USA Göran Sonesson, Lund University,

editorial board Per Aage Brandt, Case Western Reserve University, USA Seana Coulson, University of California, San Diego, USA Terrence W. Deacon, University of California, Berkeley, USA Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis, USA Jean Petitot, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, Frederik Stjernfelt, Aarhus University, Denmark Eve Sweetser, University of California, Berkeley, USA Leonard Talmy, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA Evan Thompson, University of Toronto, Canada Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA Patrizia Violi, , Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Sweden adVisory board Liliana Albertazzi, University of Trento, Italy Chiara Ambrosio, University College London, UK Juana Isabel Marin-Arrese, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Bernard Baars, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA, USA Alexander Bergs, University of Osnabrück, Luis Emilio Bruni, Aalborg University, Denmark Roberto Casati, Jean Nicod Institute, Paris, France Roberto Flores, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico Rick Grush, University of California, San Diego, USA David Herman, Ohio State University, USA Barend van Heusden, University of , The Mark Johnson, University of Oregon, USA Kalevi Kull, , Jean Lassègue, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France Ronald Langacker, University of California, San Diego, USA Michael Leyton, Rutgers University, USA Dominic McIver Lopes, University of British Columbia, Canada Raymond A. Mar, York University, Canada Irene Mittelberg, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Frederic Nef, Jean Nicod Institute, Paris, France Douglas Niño, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia Martina Plümacher, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany Roberto Poli, University of Trento, Italy Andreas Roepstorff, Aarhus University, Denmark Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, UK Jesper Sørensen, Aarhus University, Denmark Mónica Tamariz, , UK Reuven Tsur, Tel Aviv University, Israel Kristian Tylén, Aarhus University, Denmark Mikkel Wallentin, Aarhus University, Denmark Wolfgang Wildgen, University of Bremen, Germany abstracted/indeXed in Baidu Scholar · Cabell's Directory · Celdes · CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) · CNPIEC · EBSCO Discovery Service · Genamics JournalSeek · Google Scholar · J-Gate · JournalTOCs · Linguistic Bibliography Online · Naviga (Softweco) · Primo Central (ExLibris) · ProQuest (relevant databases) · ReadCube · ResearchGate · Sherpa/RoMEO · Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest) · TDOne (TDNet) · Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb · WorldCat (OCLC)

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Contents

Amadeu Viana Vico, Peirce, and the issue of complexity in human sciences 1

Alessandra Anastasi Biology, learning, and evolution of vocality: Biosemiotics of birdsong 19

Anjan Chatterjee Patrick Colm Hogan. 2016. Beauty and Sublimity: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Literature and the Arts 41

Patrick Colm Hogan Reply 49

Donna E. West Virtual habit as episode-builder in the inferencing process 55