摘要：Th is paper aims to provide an overview of ecosemiotics (or semiotic ecology) particularly as developed at the University of Tartu (Estonia) and adjacent academic communities. Th e fi rst ecosemiotic publications were issued in Tartu in 1998 and thus the history of the field now reaches back two decades. The rationale of the paper is twofold: to preserve the record of the activities of Tartu’s ecosemiotics and to publicize the paradigm in the context of contemporary environmental humanities. Its emergence and development being closely bound to the scholars in Tartu, ecosemiotics is now a well-established theory of its own. In the following I present the main events, where the University of Tartu was involved, which facilitated this theoretical development.
