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Introduction
Introduction

Author(s): Dario Martinelli
Subject(s): Semiotics / Semiology
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: “Zoosemiotics” was introduced in 1963 by Thomas Albert Sebeok, initially as a compromise between ethological and semiotic research. In the beginning, Sebeok was convinced that “zoosemiotics” had to be used mostly as an umbrella term, uniting different scholarly approaches to animal communication). In the light of its most recent developments, a synthetic definition of zoosemiotics can be today that of the study of semiosis within and across animal species. Let us see the implications of this definition.

  • Issue Year: 37/2009
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 353-368
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English