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A study by Umberto Eco and his colleagues on the history of early zoosemiotics: Commentary and bibliography

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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Animal vocalization and human polyglossia in Walter of Bibbesworth’s thirteenth-century domestic treatise in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English

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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Interview with Vyacheslav V. Ivanov about semiotics, the languages of the brain and history of ideas

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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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 ...
Maran, Timo, Tønnessen, Morten, Oma Armstrong, Kristin, Kiiroja, Laura, Magnus, Riin, Mäekivi, Nelly, Rattasepp, Silver, Thibault, Paul, Tüür, Kadri   +8 more
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Exploring domestic cat welfare: Gaps, challenges, and the role of zoosemiotics in feline well-being

Sign Systems Studies
This 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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Simulated animal and simulated umwelt: Towards a method of analysing and critiquing nonhuman animals in consumer settings

Sign Systems Studies
In this article I develop sociologist George Ritzer’s concept ‘simulated animal’ by focusing on rational systems, enchantment, and nonhuman animal corporeality and behaviour.
Andrew Mark Creighton
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Czy zwierzęta mają język?

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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Symbolic, Indexical, and Iconic Communication with Domestic Dogs

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2018
Recent studies in canine communication are reviewed using Deacon’s framework of iconic, indexical, and symbolic reference. The presented analysis examines these studies using Deacon’s notion of interpretant, taking into account the evolutionary and ...
Andrew M. Olney
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Semiotically Mediated Human-Bee Communication in the Practice of Brazilian Meliponiculture. [PDF]

Biosemiotics, 2023
Piva HC.
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