A report on the conference “Ecosemiotic Paradigm for Nature and Culture”

s, yet they were also partially intersecting or complementing one another. Among the main content-related motifs, there were intertwined questions about the criteria justifying the discerning of relational and existential properties of the notion of the ecological system and the environmentally conditioned system of mutual understanding. Here belonged, inter alia, issues connected with the classifi cation of cultures and civilizations, as a science of systems, and issues related to the modelling of reality in accordance with the possible worlds existing in the individual experiences of humans and in the concluded worlds prevailing in the narratives about the reality of everyday life and artistic culture. Th e presenters also discussed the peculiarity and role of teaching through signs, the formation of attitudes of learners through the acquisition of values, the structure of legal acts which regulate the behaviour of individuals and their rhetoric of communication in everyday life and qualifi cation frames regulating the ways of acquiring knowledge and contents of teaching and their contributions to the state of knowledge among learners. One of the presentations emphasized the role of creativity in the activity of humans, breaking conventions and striving for innovation, while others pointed to the threat which the global spread of electronic technology and media civilization is bringing about, exerting a destructive infl uence on the natural and cultural environments in which people cope with problems of everyday life. Organizing this event that brought together internationally impactful semioticians was certainly remarkable for the Silesian Botanical Garden in Mikołów.