Particularities of the communicative network within major semiosic non-verbal constructions

Abstract

Specialized literature differentiates a wide variety of communication forms, based on the diversity of their criteria of classification. Starting from the statement that biosemiotics - a relatively new science situated between biology and semiotics that studies the prelinguistic meaning-making, communication, production and interpretation of signs and codes in the biological realm - the author, using a biosemiotic approach, aims to point out the complexity of the communicative network in the garden space, which is considered by biosemioticians as major semiosic non-verbal construction, representing a place of convergence between semiosis, that is any form of activity, conduct, or process of communication that involves signs, and which are present within plant kingdom and human intentional activities as well. Communicative processes of the garden are performed by a wide range of mechanisms and signs: iconic, indexical, conventional/symbolic or artefacts and the constitutive elements of any garden – be they natural or artificial, are involved more or less in this communicative network. Thus, we may differentiate two main levels in the communication precesses, starting from biological communication up to cultural symbolism. The author comes to the conclusion that the garden, being a cultural phenomenon designed by humans to induce certain feelings, is suited for an interdisciplinary research and a combined semiotic approach, the communicative network within major semiosic nonverbal constructions being very complex.