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Animal vocalization and human polyglossia in Walter of Bibbesworth’s thirteenth-century domestic treatise in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English [PDF]
Sign Systems Studies, 2009 Walter of Bibbesworth’s late thirteenth-century versified treatise on French vocabulary relevant to the management of estates in Britain has the first extensive list of animal vocalizations in a European vernacular.
William Sayers
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Exploring domestic cat welfare: Gaps, challenges, and the role of zoosemiotics in feline well-being [PDF]
Sign Systems StudiesThis article investigates the welfare of domestic cats by adopting a zoosemiotic perspective. It gives a broad picture of animal welfare in general and contextualizes studies conducted on cats within this, revealing differences in research foci compared
Jana Tajchmanová, Nelly Mäekivi
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Animal Umwelten in a Changing world: Zoosemiotic Perspectives [PDF]
, 2016 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 ...
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Interview with Vyacheslav V. Ivanov about semiotics, the languages of the brain and history of ideas [PDF]
Sign Systems Studies, 2011 The interview with one of the founders of the Tartu–Moscow school, semiotician Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (b. 1929) from August 2010, describes V. V. Ivanov’s opinions of several scholars and their work (including Evgenij Polivanov, Mikhail Bakhtin,
Ekaterina Velmezova, Kalevi Kull
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Naming animals in Chinese writing
Sign Systems Studies, 2001 Naming, according to Sebeok, constihttes the first stage of zoosemiotics. This special but common use of language acrually inaugurates more complicated procedures of human discourse on non-human kingdom, including classification of its members.
Han-liang Chang
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The role of trust in binding the perspectives of guide dogs and their visually impaired handlers
Sign Systems Studies, 2014 Building on anthropological discussions of perspectivism and (zoo)semiotic accounts of sign use by humans and other animals, the article explores the cooperation of a guide dog and its visually impaired handler as contingent on the mutual adjustment of ...
Riin Magnus
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The Mixed Category of Human/Animal in Greimas’ Mythologies. Transl. by Ramunė Brundzaitė
Semiotika (Vilniaus universitetas), 2019 Translated from Tiziana Migliore, „L’interspecie umano-animale nelle Mitologiche di Greimas“, in: Algirdas Julien Greimas, Mitologiche. La semiosfera lituana, a cura di Paolo Fabbri, Roma: Aracne editrice, 2007, p.187–195. Transl. by Ramunė Brundzaitė.
Tiziana Migliore, Ramunė Brundzaitė
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Sign Systems Studies, 2018 The article provides a commentary on Umberto Eco’s text “Animal language before Sebeok”, and an annotated bibliography of various versions of the article on ‘latratus canis’ that Eco published together with Roberto Lambertini, Costantino Marmo, and ...
Kalevi Kull
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Zoophilologica, 2017 The belief that only humans use language has dominated in science for years. Linguists are especially sensitive to the notion that animals can use or create language.
Barbara Rode
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Representational Systems in Zoosemiotics and Anthroposemiotics Part II [PDF]
Linguistic Frontiers, 2021 Following the conclusions of the previous paper (Uhlir, this issue), this paper adopts a theory that is based on the notion that the essence of language is uniquely human, with no homologue elsewhere in nature, and advances the possibility that human language is discontinuous not only within communication systems but also within representational ...
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