semiosphere

== English == === Etymology === From semio- + -sphere. === Noun === semiosphere (plural semiospheres) (semiotics) The sphere of semiosis in which the sign processes operate in the set of all interconnected Umwelts; The domain of all signs that represent and define a culture. 2003 Iu. M. Lotman, Edna Andrews - Conversations With Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition Lotman's conceptualization of the semiosphere was inspired by Vernadsky's and Teilhard de Chardin's vision of the biosphere and the noosphere.