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Animal language before Sebeok
In: Sign Systems Studies 2018, Volume 46, Issue 2/3
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- 365-377
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2018.46.2-3.09
From Body Fuel to Universal Poison
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Other title information: Cultural History of Meat: 1900-The Present
Annotation: This book explores our changing relationship with meat as food. Half storytelling and half historic work, it analyzes the way in which humans have dealt with the idea of eating animals in the Western world, from 1900 to the present.
Identifier: 9783319720852
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Animal Umwelten in a Changing World
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Other title information: Zoosemiotic perspectives
Notes: Editors of the series: Kalevi Kull, Silvi Salupere, Peeter Torop
Annotation: This book is a collective effort. Its 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 Department of Semiotics at the University of Stavanger in Norway. The two opening chapters are written and edited collectively and present a framework of philosophical, historical, epistemological and methodological matters of zoosemiotic research. These initial considerations are followed by specific case studies that have been conducted by individual authors. The specific chapters, however, have been cross-edited and commented on by other authors of the book so that the whole collection forms an integrated set of view-points.
Identifier: 9789949772803
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Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen
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Annotation: Our relationship with "other" animals is not only becoming socially ever more significant, it has also been rediscovered as a topic for the humanities and sciences. This volume is the first encyclopedia to devote itself comprehensively to the relationship between humans and animals. In contrast to traditional introductions into animal ethics, the large-scale work does not limit itself to issues of moral philosophy but also explores the human-animal relationship from a historical, sociological, ethological and cultural perspective
Identifier: 9783837622324
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Semiosis and Catastrophes
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Other title information: René Thom’s Semiotic Heritage
Annotation: The central concern of this volume is semiogenesis, i.e. the evolution and differentiation of meaningful («pregnant») forms in the field of symbolic systems – from bio-communication to language and cultural forms like music, art, architecture or urban forms. The basic questions are: How are meanings created and further differentiated? Where do they come from? What kind of forces drive their unfolding? How can complex cultural forms be understood based on simple morphodynamic principles? Applications concern the perception of forms by animals and humans, the categorization of forms e.g. in a lexicon, and predication or other complex symbolic behaviors which show up in grammar or in cultural artifacts like the unfolding of urban centers.
Identifier: 9783034304672
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Abstraction, cruelty and other aspects of animal play (exemplified by the playfulness of Muki and Maluca)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 558-579
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.09
Animal vocalization and human polyglossia in Walter of Bibbesworth’s thirteenth-century domestic treatise in Anglo-Norman French and Middle English
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 525-541
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.07
Animals and music: Between cultural definitions and sensory evidence
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 423-453
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.02
Bird sounds in nature writing: Human perspective on animal communication
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 580-613
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.10
Conditioning or cognition? Understanding interspecific communication as a way of improving animal training (a case study with elephants in Nepal)
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 542-557
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.08
John Maynard Smith’s typology of animal signals: A view from semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 477-497
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.04
Studying the cognitive states of animals: Epistemology, ethology and ethics
In: Sign System Studies 2009, Volume 37, Issue 3/4: Zoosemiotics
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- 369-422
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2009.37.3-4.01
Homo Homini Lupus?
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Other title information: spre o semiotică a discursului politic
Annotation: "Homo homini lupus", the famous line of Plautus, univocally interpreted by philosophers such as Bacon, Hobbes, Hume and others, still suggests that man is the only "animal" that attacks his fellow man for reasons other than instinctive ones. At the same time, however, the greed that turns some people into beasts seems to be balanced by opposite attitudes, synthesised by Seneca in the principle "Homo res sacra homini". Between these extremes marked by tears and love, the entire tense history of the human being unfolded. "Quo vadis, homine?", this is the question to which, in order to extinguish potential tensions, the politician owes him an answer, valuing the science of reading the signs that foreshadow the future...
Identifier: 9737303075
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The origins of meaning
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- Vol. 1
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Other title information: Language in the Light of Evolution
Annotation: Hurford integrates findings from ethology and neuroscience with concepts from philosophy and linguistics to make an explicit and convincing case that animals have rich concepts, and thus that meaning predated language
Identifier: 9780199207855
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Zoosemiotics
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Other title information: proposals for a handbook
Annotation: Zoosemiotcs is more than forty years old. It was in 1963 when Thomas Sebeok established its birth and, partly, definitons. As most people in their forties, zoosemiotics, too, seems to be driven by a desire to reflect about its life, its identity and its experiences. We know very little about zoosemiotics, and the amount of information at our disposal is sometimes quite confusing, if not confused. Forty years is a very young age, scientifically speaking, for a discipline to answer its most important questions. The present book consists of a series of esssays with a homogenous and causally correlated structure. It summarises all the author's interests in the field, including his attempt to extend the field to the areas of anthrozoology (i.e., the study of the human-other animal relationship) and a string ethical input.
Identifier: 9789525431162
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Il Musicista Filosofo e le Passioni
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- Linguaggio e retorica dei suoni nel Seicento europeo
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Annotation: Individando nel pensiero musicale del Seicento archetipi correnti della comunicazione passionale attraverso i suoni, il volume ricompone le fila di un dibattito ideale sull'identita del segno musicale che lo misurava con quello linguistico o con la creaziobne poetica, non senza riportarlo al codice espressivo degli animali o al canto degli uccelli.
Identifier: 8820731991
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Defining the semiotic animal
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Other title information: A postmodern definiton of "human being" to supersede the modern definition as "res cogitans"
Notes: Fourth and last publication in the 2005 Semiotics Seminar series
Annotation: The book starts with a historical overview of general semiotics and then transitions into zoosemiotics and biosemiotics, focusing on perception in animals and humans with a goal of defining what it means to be human
Identifier: 9548964678
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Feste dei campanacci a Tricarico e San Mauro Forte
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Santi, animali e suoni
Accompanying materials: Includes a CD
Annotation: A Tricarico e San Mauro Forte, in occasione della festa di S. Antonio Abate (17 gennaio), gioro di inizio del Carnevale, le strade vengono invase da gruppi di scampanatori mascherati. In questo volume viene presentata l'eccezionale documentazione sonora e fotografica di questi due eventi, realizzata da Steven Feld e Stefano Vaja nel corso di una ricerca coodinata da Nicola Scaldaferri. Alle fotografie e alle registrazioni si sono aggiunti i contributi di Febo Guizzi, Francesco Marano e Fernando Mirizzi.
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Human/animal communications, language, and evolution
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 201-212
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.11
Thinking with animals
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 203-218
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.12
La Traduzione
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Annotation: This issue of Athanor is a collection of contributions by specialists from different disciplinary fields - semiotics, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and biology - on the problems of translation. We can distinguish them on the basis of two orientations. One consists in limiting the question of translation to the realm of verbal language or, more specifically, to the relationship between historical-natural languages, or, again, to the more restricted realm of literary and poetic translation. The other, instead, aims to broaden the field of investigation to intersemiotic translation, between different non-verbal languages and even outside of human languages, to the point of including translations of a specifically biological nature that are the object of study of biosemiotics - such as for example, the three different types of translation in the nutritional system that constitute the difference between plants, animals and mushrooms - or the cyborg translation between organic and inorganic made possible by current technological development. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 8883530349
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An Aristotelian approach to animal behavior
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 199-214
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.199
Motion pictures as metaphoric consumption: How animal narratives teach us to be human
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.115.1-2.53
Language and Human Behaviour
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Annotation: Bickerton argues that each of the properties distinguishing human intelligence and consciousness from that of other animals can be shown to derive straightforwardly from properties of language. In essence, language arose as a representational system, not a means of communication or a skill, and not a product of culture but an evolutionary adaptation.
Identifier: 1857285417
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Faces in the clouds
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Other title information: a new theory of religion
Annotation: In this book anthorpologist Steward githrie argues persuasively that religion is anthropomorphism - the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things and events. Guthrie's explanation is radical. Anthropomorphism and hence religion, he says, strem form a stratefy of perception. Mrdhalling a wealth of evidence from etnography, cognitive science, philosophy, theology, advertising, literature, art and animal behavior. Faces in the clouds shows how this perceptual strategy pervades human life and how it underlines religious experience
Identifier: 0195069013
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The Socialness of Things
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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects
Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.
Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.
Identifier: 3110141337
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A stroll through the worlds of animals and men: A picture book of invisible worlds
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 4
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.89.4.319
Planning and semiotics
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.3-4.189
Review article
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.3-4.309
Semiotics and framing: Examples
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.3-4.239
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.3-4.u
The audience as/for Accomplice: Code-breaking in the comedy thriller
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.3-4.287
Umberto Eco and William of Baskerville: Partners in abduction
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.92.3-4.259
From calculus to language: The case of circus equine displays
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.291
Introduction: The circus — a semiotic spectroscopy
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.189
My circus fieldwork
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.201
Old Regnas et le droit chemin: Analyse sémiotique et opérateurs topologiques
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.319
Performance and family in the world of British circus
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.257
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.u
Symbolic types, the body, and circus
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.205
The rhetoric of romance and the simulation of tradition in circus clown performance
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.227
′A picture is worth a thousand words′: How we talk about images
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.275
A semiotic study of Zhuge Liang
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.263
Animal ‘language’ research: The perpetuation of some old mistakes
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.199
Charles S. Peirce meets Douglas Hofstadter: Pragmatism and the language of modern science
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.191
Local semiosis and theatrical interpretation
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.249
Metaphor as polilogic semiosis
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.233
Review article
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.301
Wittgenstein et Peirce: Le jeu de langage
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.73.3-4.219
Echo de la querelle du psychologisme et de l’antipsychologisme dans l’Ars Logica de Jean Poinsot
In: Semiotica 1985, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1985.56.3-4.225