Darwin’s antithesis revisited – a zoosemiotic perspective on expressing emotions in animals and animal cartoon characters [PDF]
Sign Systems Studies, 2019 In the animation and design of cartoon characters, animators have often turned to the study of biological theories and observation of human actors and animals to capture lifelike movements and emotions more successfully.
Jason Mario Dydynski, Nelly Mäekivi
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Simulated animal and simulated umwelt: Towards a method of analysing and critiquing nonhuman animals in consumer settings [PDF]
Sign Systems StudiesIn 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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Zoosemiótica para Principiantes: del Umwelt de Uexküll a las Fronteras Zoosemióticas del Siglo XXI [PDF]
, 2021 The purpose of this article is to introduce the reader to the study of zoosemiotics. For this, first we analyze inconsistencies in neo-Darwinian thought regarding animal communication.
Medina Ramírez, Camilo José
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Des chaînons manquants dans une sémiotique écologique: le cas des animaux [PDF]
, 2021 To approach the very delicate question of the relationship between semiotics and the discourse of ecology, we should first ask the question of the four levels of the research in signification, and then to apply them to ongoing research on animality and ...
Gianfranco Marrone +17 more
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Sign Systems Studies, 2023 The case study described in this paper is part of an emerging cultural context in both its scientific as well as societal aspects, where animals are seen more and more as social and ethical subjects and their presence in the vicinity of humans is seen ...
Pauline Delahaye
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The Role of Zoosemiotic Inquiry in Shared Environments: Interlinking Nature and Culture
Cultural Science, 2022 Environmental humanities study how human worldviews and culture affect the rest of the nature and our interactions with it. Zoosemiotics provides a unique perspective on human-alloanimal communication and analyzes communication dynamics to address the ...
Mäekivi Nelly
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The Capacities and Limitations of Language in Animal Fantasies
Humanimalia, 2020 Drawing on the field of zoosemiotics, this paper explores the representation of language and other forms of communication in animal fantasy fiction, citing Richard Adams’s Watership Down (1972) as a key example of a text which depicts a wide spectrum of
Douglas Leatherland
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Comunicación desde un abordaje post-darwiniano : articulaciones actuales entre ética y zoosemiótica [PDF]
, 2021 A partir de los desarrollos de Thomas Sebeok, la zoosemiótica se ha establecido en los últimos años como una disciplina muy visitada por su novedoso abordaje del vínculo entre las características de la comunicación de los seres humanos y los animales no ...
Suárez-Ruiz, E. Joaquín +1 more
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Semiotic dimensions of human attitudes towards other animals: A case of zoological gardens
Sign Systems Studies, 2016 This paper analyses the cultural and biosemiotic bases of human attitudes towards other species. A critical stance is taken towards species neutrality and it is shown that human attitudes towards different animal species differ depending on the ...
Nelly Mäekivi, Timo Maran
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Sign Systems Studies, 2023 This paper suggests how natural disasters may serve as the final propulsion for changes already taking place within a society. While focusing on shifts in human–non-human animal relations, this text also discusses their embedding in broader ...
Muzayin Nazaruddin, Riin Magnus
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