Overview
- Presents interdisciplinary methodology between life sciences and language sciences
- Examines the latest debates, controversies, and problematic definitions plaguing the animal studies field
- Discusses complex animal subject (i.e., emotions, cognition, learning, consciousness) from the perspective of zoosemiotics
Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 19)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
This monograph is about new perspective in animal studies methodology, by using concepts and tools from the field of semiotics. It proposes a reflexion on current challenges and issues in the ethology field, and introduces different semiotics – biosemiotics, zoosemiotics – as potential methodological solutions.
The chapters cover many aspects of ethology where semiotics can be a helpful hand: studies of language, culture, cognition or emotions, issues about complex, endangered or variable species. It explains why these points are difficult to study for actual ethology, why they still matter for researchers, biodiversity actors or wildlife programs, and how an interdisciplinary study with a semiotic point of view can help understand them.
This book will appeal to a wide readership, from researchers and academics in living sciences as well as in linguistics fields, to other professionals – veterinarian, wildlife managers, zookeepers, and many others – who feel the need to better understand some aspects of animals they are working with. Students with animal focus should read this book as an introduction to interdisciplinary methodology, and a proposition to work differently with animals.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Semiotic Methodology for Animal Studies
Authors: Pauline Delahaye
Series Title: Biosemiotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28813-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28812-9Published: 26 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28815-0Published: 26 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28813-6Published: 13 November 2019
Series ISSN: 1875-4651
Series E-ISSN: 1875-466X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 199
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Semiotics, Research Methods in Language and Linguistics, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary