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Psycholinguistics --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Mammals --- Apes --- Human-animal communication --- Psychology --- Animal Communication. --- Primates. --- -Human-animal communication --- Animal communication with humans --- Animal-human communication --- Communication with animals --- Human communication with animals --- Language learning by animals --- Man-animal communication --- Animal communication --- Communication --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal communicators --- Hominoidea --- Primates --- Primate --- Animal Communications --- Communication, Animal --- Communications, Animal --- Human-animal communication. --- Psychology. --- Animal Communication --- Apes - Psychology

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Speaking of Animals consists of a linked series of thirteen essays about subjects ranging from deciding to castrate a dog, evaluating recent dog memoirs, observing animals in Spain, reading about the training of big cats, watching Animal Planet, and being unable to kill a racoon in Texas. So often personal, even while analyzing novels such as Water for Elephants or movies such as Giant or Into the Wild , the essays offer both an implicit critique and a continuation of recent discursive trends in animal studies, whose language is too haplessly abstracted from the animals in whose name we humans strive to speak as well as narrate.

Animals --- Dogs --- Human-animal communication. --- Human-animal relationships. --- Animal communication with humans --- Animal-human communication --- Communication with animals --- Human communication with animals --- Language learning by animals --- Man-animal communication --- Animal communication --- Communication --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal communicators --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals, Legends and stories of

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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.

Animal communication. --- Human-animal communication. --- Biology --- Biosemiotics --- Semiotics --- Animal communication with humans --- Animal-human communication --- Communication with animals --- Human communication with animals --- Language learning by animals --- Man-animal communication --- Animal communication --- Communication --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal communicators --- Animal biocommunication --- Animal language --- Biocommunication, Animal --- Animal behavior --- Semiotics. --- Communication.

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Linguistics --- Animal ethology and ecology. Sociobiology --- Animal Communication. --- Animal communication. --- Human-animal communication --- Language and languages --- -Foreign languages --- Languages --- Anthropology --- Communication --- Ethnology --- Information theory --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Philology --- Animal communication with humans --- Animal-human communication --- Communication with animals --- Human communication with animals --- Language learning by animals --- Man-animal communication --- Animal communication --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal communicators --- Animal biocommunication --- Animal language --- Biocommunication, Animal --- Animal behavior --- Animal Communications --- Communication, Animal --- Communications, Animal --- Philosophy --- Human-animal communication. --- Philosophy. --- -Philosophy --- Animal Communication

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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.

Semiotics / semiology --- Animals & society --- Animal communication. --- Human-animal communication. --- Semiotics. --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Animal communication with humans --- Animal-human communication --- Communication with animals --- Human communication with animals --- Language learning by animals --- Man-animal communication --- Animal communication --- Communication --- Human-animal relationships --- Animal communicators --- Animal language --- Communication among animals --- Animal behavior --- Animal biocommunication --- Biocommunication, Animal --- animal representations --- semiotics --- animals --- umwelten --- zoosemiotics --- human-animal relations --- Jakob Johann von Uexküll --- Mimicry --- Norway --- Predation