Abstract:This introductory paper of the zoosemiotic issue of Semiotica gives an insight into the history of zoosemiotics and into contemporary developments of the field. Temporal distance allows for a fresh pe...This introductory paper of the zoosemiotic issue of Semiotica gives an insight into the history of zoosemiotics and into contemporary developments of the field. Temporal distance allows for a fresh perspective on Thomas A. Sebeok's zoosemiotic writings, periodization of his works and their relations to other studies of animal semiotics. In the present time, zoosemiotics can provide a necessary space of dialogue between biosemiotics and general semiotics. It is claimed that, for contemporary zoosemiotics, a pluralistic approach is the most suitable for the purposes of historical description, object-level studies, and paradigmatic theorizations. It is also relevant to see zoosemiotics as contextualized within recent developments of environmental humanities. In this paper, the classical era of zoosemiotics is contrasted with the more recent post-linguistic zoosemiotics, with special attention paid to the synthesis between zoosemiotics and cultural and literary criticism, to zoomusicology, and to the inclusion of semiotic arguments in animal ethics. Several practical methods and applications of zoo-semiotics are discussed.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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