Language of Life: A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms

Ľudmila Lacková Bennett. Peter Lang Verlag, 2025

DOI: 10.3726/b22291

In this book, I apply Peirce's logical apparatus to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the multidimensionality of the passage from genotype to phenotype. The interdisciplinary nature of this study consists in combining Peirce's triadic logic, linguistics and biology. As a linguist, I draw out similarities between sentence construction and protein folding. Three main branches from the biological sciences are focused on: evolution, epigenetics and protein folding. The volume applies Peirce's logical tools to demonstrate the universal validity of his scientific method in the current research.

Stručný průvodce jazyky Evropy
(A short guide to the languages ​​of Europe)

Ľudmila Lacková, Samuel Henri Bidaud. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouc, 2021

ISBN: 978-80-244-5810-6

From the point of view of teaching linguistics, it is necessary to prepare students, i.e., the next European generation, to the possibilities of satisfying and fulfilling the strategies and set goals of the European Union in terms of language. In addition to language teaching itself, which is inseparable, there is also a linguistic-contextual level. Following on from the EU strategy papers, linguistics students should receive an education that will help them to orient themselves in the linguistic diversity of Europe. The presented study book presents students of general linguistics with clear material for typological, genealogical, sociolinguistic, and general linguistic orientation within the geographical continuum of European languages.

Gatherings in Biosemiotics XX

Edited by Ľudmila Lacková, Claudio Rodríguez, Kalevi Kull. University of Tartu Press, 2020

ISBN: 978-9949-03-514-4

This volume marks the 20th anniversary of the International Gatherings in Biosemiotics, reflecting two decades of scholarly dialogue at the intersection of biology and semiotics. Edited by a new generation of biosemioticians, the book highlights how fresh voices and evolving ideas continue to shape the field. As biosemiotics grows, so too does our conviction that it is not only a valuable perspective but a necessary framework for understanding life itself, both as a biological phenomenon and as a semiotic process. Bridging the sciences and the humanities, Gatherings in Biosemiotics XX celebrates the enduring vitality of the field and the productive exchange of ideas that continues to push it forward. In this book, I also contributed with two chapters I co-authored.

Semiosis as Creation: Between Nature, Body, and Art (Semiosis como creación: entre la naturaleza, el cuerpo y el arte)

Edited by Jorge Eduardo Uruena Lopez, Jamin Pelkey, Ľudmila Lacková Bennett. Universidad del Rosario Press, 2025

This volume explores semiosis as a space of creation, embodied experience, and epistemological reflection at the intersection of nature, art, and meaning-making. Drawing on contemporary biosemiotics, cognitive semiotics, and artistic research, it addresses the paradox between matter and mind, and the centrality of creativity as a form of embodied semiosis. Concepts such as agency, participation, event, and practice are brought into dialogue through contributions from diverse semiotic traditions. From the way organisms inhabit space to how the body moves, breathes, and feels, the book examines how meaning emerges from lived experience. Art and nature are presented not as representations, but as forms of presence, as acts of existence that unfold in time and space. As artificial intelligence increasingly generates texts and images devoid of bodily constraints, the book poses critical questions: Can creativity exist without a body? What are the limits of meaning-making when disembodied processes dominate? This transdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from across the field of semiotics to reflect on semiosis as a dynamic site of interpretation, relation, and creative transformation.

Iconicity and generative grammar

The Oxford Handbook of Iconicity in Language

Olga Fischer, Kimi Akita, and Pamela Perniss (eds.). Oxford University Press, 2026, pp. 105-122.

ISBN: 9780192849489 

Crisis of the Subject in Mediated Communication

Epidemics and Pandemics. Philosophical Perspectives

ISBN: 978-2-503-59892-5

O potrebe skúmania digitálnej komunikácie

Impulzy súčasnej jazykovedy

Alena Bohunická, Maryna Kazharnovich (eds.). Komenský University in Bratislava, 2023, pp. 123-140

ISBN: 978-80-223-5644-2

Inteligencia artificial: lenguaje, iconicidad y limitaciones corporales para la creatividad.

 Semiosis as Creation: Between Nature, Body, and Art / Semiosis como creación: entre la naturaleza, el cuerpo y el arte: Between Nature, Body, and Art / entre la naturaleza, el cuerpo y el arte 

Ľ. L. Bennett, J. E. U. López, & J. Pelkey (eds.), pp. 143–174. Editorial Universidad del Rosario. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36461989.13  

ISBN: 9789585005501

Logic of Relatives as Syntax in the Genetic Code

Applied Interdisciplinary Peirce Studies, Peirce Studies 10

Elize Bisanz (ed.). Peter Lang Verlag, 2019, pp. 189-204

DOI: 10.3726/b15707

Quelques Remarques sur l'Usage du Terme "l'Arbitraire du Signe"

The Arbitrariness of the Sign in Question

Jean-Yves Beziau (ed.). College Publications, 2019, pp. 283-294

ISBN: 978-1-84890-313-5

Tematicko-rematický nexus z rozmanitých perspektiv v různých jazycích

Petra Vaculíková, Michal Jurka, Lacková Ľudmila et al. Univerzita Palackého v Olomouc, 2015

DOI: 10.5507/ff.15.24451213