A Semiotic Methodology For Animal Studies

Author : Pauline Delahaye
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030288136

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A Semiotic Methodology for Animal Studies by Pauline Delahaye Pdf

This monograph is about new perspective in animal studies methodology, by using concepts and tools from the field of semiotics. It proposes a reflexion on current challenges and issues in the ethology field, and introduces different semiotics – biosemiotics, zoosemiotics – as potential methodological solutions. The chapters cover many aspects of ethology where semiotics can be a helpful hand: studies of language, culture, cognition or emotions, issues about complex, endangered or variable species. It explains why these points are difficult to study for actual ethology, why they still matter for researchers, biodiversity actors or wildlife programs, and how an interdisciplinary study with a semiotic point of view can help understand them. This book will appeal to a wide readership, from researchers and academics in living sciences as well as in linguistics fields, to other professionals – veterinarian, wildlife managers, zookeepers, and many others – who feel the need to better understand some aspects of animals they are working with. Students with animal focus should read this book as an introduction to interdisciplinary methodology, and a proposition to work differently with animals.

Author : Gianfranco Marrone,Dario Mangano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319729923

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Semiotics of Animals in Culture by Gianfranco Marrone,Dario Mangano Pdf

To place animals within the realm of nature, means inserting them among the articulations of culture and the social. Semiotics has never avoided this chiasmus, choosing to deal from the outset with the problem of the languages of animals following the old admonition of Montaigne: it is not that animals do not talk, it is us who do not understand them. Recent research in the field of the anthropology of nature and sociology of sciences and techniques allow to think about the Zoosemiotic issue in a different way. Instead of transplanting the language structures – gestures, LIS, etc. – for a semiotic study of the forms of the human and social meaning, it seems more apt to look at their discourse, and as such, the actual interactions, communicative and scientific as well as practical and functional, between humans and non-humans. This book aims to investigate precisely this hypothesis, known here as Zoosemiotics 2.0, working on several fronts and levels: · Anthropology · Languages of the image and visual representations, from art history to cinema · Old and new media. From literature to comics, from cartoons to TV documentaries but also advertising, music, Web and social networks. All those cultural products that talk about the role of human and non-human in society implicitly proposing (and in some way imposing) a form of articulation of such a relationship. · Food and feeding rites · Animalist, vegetarian and vegan movements · Philosophy: metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics

Author : Timo Maran,Dario Martinelli,Aleksei Turovski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110253436

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Readings in Zoosemiotics by Timo Maran,Dario Martinelli,Aleksei Turovski Pdf

The book is the first annotated reader to focus specifically on the discipline of zoosemiotics. Zoosemiotics can be defined today as the study of signification, communication and representation within and across animal species. The name for the field was proposed in 1963 by the American semiotician Thomas A. Sebeok. He also established the framework for the paradigm by finding and tightening connections to predecessors, describing terminology, developing methodology and setting directions for possible future studies. The volume includes a wide selection of original texts accompanied by editorial introductions. An extensive opening introduction discusses the place of zoosemiotics among other sciences as well as its inner dimensions; the understanding of the concept of communication in zoosemiotics, the heritage of biologist Jakob v. Uexküll; contemporary developments in zoosemiotics and other issues. Chapter introductions discuss the background of the authors and selected texts, as well as other relevant texts. The selected texts cover a wide range of topics, such as semiotic constitution of nature, cognitive capabilities of animals, typology of animal expression and many other issues. The roots of zoosemiotics can be traced back to the works of David Hume and John Locke. Great emphasis is placed on the heritage of Thomas A. Sebeok, and a total of four of his essays are included. The Reader also includes influential studies in animal communication (honey bee dance language, vervet monkey alarm calls) as well as theory elaborations by Gregory Bateson and others. The reader concludes with a section dedicated to contemporary research. Readings in Zoosemiotics is intended as a primary source of information about zoosemiotics, and also provides additional readings for students of cognitive ethology and animal communication studies.

Author : Jamin Pelkey,Stéphanie Walsh Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350139336

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Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences by Jamin Pelkey,Stéphanie Walsh Matthews Pdf

Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. With four volumes spanning theory, method and practice across the disciplines, this definitive reference work emphasizes and strengthens common bonds shared across intellectual cultures, and facilitates the discovery and recovery of meaning across fields. It comprises: Volume 1: History and Semiosis Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences Volume 4: Semiotic Movements Written by leading international experts, the chapters provide comprehensive overviews of the history and status of semiotic inquiry across a diverse range of traditions and disciplines. Together, they highlight key contemporary developments and debates along with ongoing research priorities. Providing the most comprehensive and united overview of the field, Bloomsbury Semiotics enables anyone, from students to seasoned practitioners, to better understand and benefit from semiotic insight and how it relates to their own area of study or research. Volume 2: Semiotics in the Natural and Technical Sciences presents the state-of-the art in semiotic approaches to disciplines ranging from mathematics and biology to neuroscience and medicine, from evolutionary linguistics and animal behaviour studies to computing, finance, law, architecture, and design. Each chapter casts a vision for future research priorities, unanswered questions, and fresh openings for semiotic participation in these and related fields.

Author : Timo Maran,Silver Rattasepp,Morten Tønnessen,Nelly Mäekivi,Laura Kiiroja,Paul Thibault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Animal communication
ISBN : 9949772818

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Animal Umwelten in a Changing World by Timo Maran,Silver Rattasepp,Morten Tønnessen,Nelly Mäekivi,Laura Kiiroja,Paul Thibault Pdf

The book raises semiotic questions of human'animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. The book takes a zoosemiotic approach and considers different species as being integrated with the environment via their specific umwelt or subjective perceptual world. The authors elaborate J. v. Uexküll's concept of umwelt to make it applicable for analyzing complex and dynamical interactions between animals, humans, environment and culture. The opening chapters of the book present a framework for philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological aspects of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies: on human'animal interactions in zoological gardens, communication in the teams of visually disabled persons and guiding dogs, semiotics of the animal condition in philosophy, historical changes in the role of animals in human households, the semiotics of predation, cultural perception of novel species, and other topics. The authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and human'animal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the University of Stavanger in Norway.

Author : Kadri Tüür,Morten Tønnessen
Publisher : Brill Rodopi
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9042038276

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The Semiotics of Animal Representations by Kadri Tüür,Morten Tønnessen Pdf

The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often conflicting ideas about our relationships with nonhuman species. Whether the animal is seen as someone with whom we can relate and feel kinship or conceived of as the radical other, popular cultural descriptions of animals are often - if not always - indirect descriptions of ourselves.The contributions to this volume offer a unique panorama of academic and literary approaches, demonstrating that an analysis of cultural representations and constructions of animals is indispensable for a better understanding of the interface of human culture and the so-called animal world.Kadri Tüür is research fellow at the Institute of Cultural Research and Fine Arts, University of Tartu. Tüür has edited collections and published articles on Estonian nature writing and ecosemiotics. Morten Tønnessen is associate professor in philosophy at Department of Health Studies, University of Stavanger. His PhD (2011) developed Uexküllian phenomenology and included analysis of Norwegian wolf management. Tønnessen is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Biosemiotics and Chair of Minding Animals Norway.

Author : Kristin Armstrong Oma,Laura Kiiroja,Nelly Maekivi,Riin Magnus,Timo Maran,Silver Rattasepp,Paul Thibault,Morten Tonnessen,Kadri Tuur
Publisher : Tartu Semiotics Library
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 994977280X

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Animal Umwelten in a Changing World by Kristin Armstrong Oma,Laura Kiiroja,Nelly Maekivi,Riin Magnus,Timo Maran,Silver Rattasepp,Paul Thibault,Morten Tonnessen,Kadri Tuur Pdf

The book raises semiotic questions of humananimal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. The book takes a zoosemiotic approach and considers different species as being integrated with the environment via their specific umwelt or subjective perceptual world. The authors elaborate J. v. Uexkull's concept of umwelt to make it applicable for analyzing complex and dynamical interactions between animals, humans, environment and culture. The opening chapters of the book present a framework for philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological aspects of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies: on humananimal interactions in zoological gardens, communication in the teams of visually disabled persons and guiding dogs, semiotics of the animal condition in philosophy, historical changes in the role of animals in human households, the semiotics of predation, cultural perception of novel species, and other topics. The authors belong to the research group in zoosemiotics and humananimal relations based in the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu in Estonia, and in the University of Stavanger in Norway.

Author : Annalisa Colombino,Heide K. Bruckner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351018609

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Methods in Human-Animal Studies by Annalisa Colombino,Heide K. Bruckner Pdf

This timely book provides a methodological guide for how to conduct and theorise research in human-animal studies. In response to critiques of the anthropomorphic slant to human-animal research and the increasing political relevance of animals in contemporary environmental debates, this book emphasises methods which bring to light the animal side of multispecies encounters. Drawing from the interdisciplinary strength of human-animal studies, this book contains contributions from practitioners and scholars working in sociology, anthropology, ethology and geography. Each chapter uses a case-study approach to present a theoretical framework and empirical application of cutting-edge methods in human-animal studies, from creative writing in multispecies ethnographies to visual methods like videography and body mapping. Organized in three parts – theorizing; collaborating; visualizing – the book equips readers with methodological tools to conduct human-animal studies research attentive to animal lives. Furthermore, chapters reflect on the opportunities, limitations and ethical considerations of research that seeks to understand our more-than-human worlds. The book is aimed towards undergraduate and graduate students in human-animal studies and scholars investigating human-animal relations. It will also be of interest to practitioners and policy-makers who engage with conservation, wildlife management or the human-animal interface of urban and regional planning.

Author : Gala Argent,Jeannette Vaught
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004514935

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The Relational Horse by Gala Argent,Jeannette Vaught Pdf

The Relational Horse explores the possibilities of including the horse’s perspective into the study of human-horse relationships. Case studies from across a range of time periods, activities, and disciplines provide fresh ways to understand horses, themselves, in relationships with humans.

Author : Adolfo M. García,Agustín Ibáñez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000728736

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The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain by Adolfo M. García,Agustín Ibáñez Pdf

This Handbook introduces neurosemiotics, a pluralistic framework to reconsider semiosis as an emergent phenomenon at the interface of biology and culture. Across individual and interpersonal settings, meaning is influenced by external and internal processes bridging phenomenological and biological dimensions. Yet, each of these dyads has been segregated into discipline-specific topics, with attempts to chart their intersections proving preliminary at best. Bringing together perspectives from world-leading experts, this volume seeks to overcome these disciplinary divides between the social and the natural sciences at both the empirical and theoretical levels. Its various chapters chart the foundations of neurosemiotics; characterize linguistic and interpersonal dynamics as shaped by neurocognitive, bodily, situational, and societal factors; and examine other daily neurosemiotic occurrences driven by faces, music, tools, and even visceral signals. This comprehensive volume is a state-of the-art resource for students and researchers interested in how humans and other animals construe experience in such fields as cognitive neuroscience, biosemiotics, philosophy of mind, neuropsychology, neurolinguistics, and evolutionary biology.

Author : Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112420584

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Zoosemiotics by Thomas A. Sebeok Pdf

Author : Aur?elie Chon?e,Isabelle Hajek,Philippe Hamman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315444758

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Rethinking Nature by Aur?elie Chon?e,Isabelle Hajek,Philippe Hamman Pdf

Contemporary ideas of nature were largely shaped by schools of thought from Western cultural history and philosophy until the present-day concerns with environmental change and biodiversity conservation. There are many different ways of conceptualising nature in epistemological terms, reflecting the tensions between the polarities of humans as masters or protectors of nature and as part of or outside of nature. The book shows how nature is today the focus of numerous debates, calling for an approach which goes beyond the merely technical or scientific. It adopts a threefold – critical, historical and cross-disciplinary – approach in order to summarise the current state of knowledge. It includes contributions informed by the humanities (especially history, literature and philosophy) and social sciences, concerned with the production and circulation of knowledge about "nature" across disciplines and across national and cultural spaces. The volume also demonstrates the ongoing reconfiguration of subject disciplines, as seen in the recent emergence of new interdisciplinary approaches and the popularity of the prefix "eco-" (e.g. ecocriticism, ecospirituality, ecosophy and ecofeminism, as well as subdivisions of ecology, including urban ecology, industrial ecology and ecosystem services). Each chapter provides a concise overview of its topic which will serve as a helpful introduction to students and a source of easy reference. This text is also valuable reading for researchers interested in philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geography, ecology, politics and all their respective environmentalist strands.

Author : John N. Deely,Susan Petrilli,Augusto Ponzio
Publisher : Legas Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Responsibility
ISBN : 1894508807

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The Semiotic Animal by John N. Deely,Susan Petrilli,Augusto Ponzio Pdf

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : LED Edizioni Universitarie
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9788879167444

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Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism, 2.2 - November 2014 by AA. VV. Pdf

Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism is a peer-refereed journal of trans-anthropocentric ethics and related inquires. The main aim of the journal is to create a professional interdisciplinary forum in Europe to discuss moral and scientific issues that concern the increasing need of going beyond narrow anthropocentric paradigms in all fields of knowledge. The journal accepts submissions on all topics which promote European research adopting a non-anthropocentric ethical perspective on both interspecific and intraspecific relationships between all life species – humans included – and between these and the abiotic environment.

Author : Dario Martinelli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048192496

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A Critical Companion to Zoosemiotics: by Dario Martinelli Pdf

A critical companion of zoosemiotics is the first attempt to systematise the study of animal communication and signification through its most important and/or problematic terms and concepts, and its most representative scholars. It is a companion, in that it attempts to cover the entire range of key terms in the field, and it's critical, in that it aims not only to describe, but also to discuss, problematise and, in some cases, resolve, these terms.