Walter A. Koch (semiotic)

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Walter A. Koch (born July 26, 1934 in Hamm ) is a German semiotic .

Life

Walter A. Koch spent his childhood in Rostock until 1945 . After graduating from high school in Hamm in 1955, he studied English , Romance studies , East Asian studies and general and comparative linguistics in Mainz , Neuchâtel and Münster from 1955 to 1961 . In 1962 he received his doctorate with the thesis "On the theory of sound change". In 1965 he was teacher in the high school service in Münster and was from 1968 to 1999 as a professor at the University of Bochum Professor of English and Semiotics held. In 1984 the interdisciplinary Bochum Semiotic Colloquium (BSC) was founded.

Koch came up with the idea that the recurrence of features of the phylogeny of language in other geneses can be expected. He tries to draw conclusions about the language evolution from parallels in language developments that can be observed today, such as that of children or that of Creole languages (so-called "echogenesis").

Koch lives in Bochum.

Fonts

  • Genes vs. Memes European University Press, Bochum 1986, ISBN 9783899660029 .
  • God and the world. European University Press, Bochum 1991, ISBN 9783934453746 .
  • The biology of literature. Brockmeyer, Bochum 1993. 3rd edition 2004, ISBN 3-88339-740-7 (BPX, 14).
  • with Gabriel Altmann (Ed.): Systems: New Paradigms for the Human Sciences. de Gruyter, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-11-015619-9 .
  • (Ed.): The world of poetry. Universitäts-Verlag, Bochum 2002, ISBN 3-934453-77-5 (Bochum contributions to semiotics, 39).
  • (Ed.): Culture and Semiotics. European University Press , Dülmen 2003, ISBN 9783934453203 .
  • (Ed.): Simple forms. An encyclopaedia of simple text types in lore and literature. Universitäts-Verlag, Bochum 1994. 3rd edition: 2004, ISBN 3-934453-16-3 (Bochum publications in evolutionary cultural semiotics, 4).
  • (Ed.): Geneses of language. Acta colloquii = recovery of language. Universitäts-Verlag, Bochum 1990. 3rd edition: 2004, ISBN 3-934453-44-9 (BPX, 11).
  • The wells of tears. A bio-semiotic essay on the roots of horror, comic, and pathos. 3. Edition. Universitäts-Verlag, Bochum 2004, ISBN 3-934453-50-3 (Bochum publications in evolutionary cultural semiotics, 24).
  • The Iconic Roots of Language. Essays on the Non-Arbitrary Origins of Human Communication. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7272-5
  • Tractatus Logo-Philososphicus: On the Subquantum Foundations of the World. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2009, ISBN 3839155223 .

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Walter A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German semiotic
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamm