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Title Perspectives on human-animal communication : internatural communication / edited by Emily Plec
Published New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 12
Routledge studies in rhetoric and communication ; 12.
Contents pt. I. Complicity -- pt. II. Implication -- pt. III. Coherence
Animals as media : speaking through/with nonhuman beings / Tony E. Adams -- Beached whales : tracing the rhetorical force of extraordinary material articulations / Deborah Cox Callister -- Framing primate testing : how supporters and opponents construct meaning and shape the debate / Joseph Abisaid -- Absorbent and yellow and porous is he : animated animal bodies in SpongeBob Squarepants / Shana Heinricy -- Stepping up to the veggie plate : framing veganism as living your values / Carrie Packwood Freeman -- The "golden" bond : exploring human-canine relationships with a retriever / Nick Trujillo -- Communicating social support to grieving clients : the veterinarians' view / Mary Pilgram -- Flocking : bird-human ritual communication / Leigh A. Bernacchi -- Banging on the divide : cultural reflection and refraction at the zoo / Tema Milstein -- Listening with the third eye : a phenomenological ethnography of animal communicators / Susan Hafen -- Thinking through ravens : human hunters, wolf-birds, and embodied communication / Pat Munday -- Un-defining man : the case for symbolic animal communication / Stephen J. Lind -- Difference without hierarchy : narrative paradigms and critical animal studies -- a meditation on communication / Susannah Bunny LeBaron
Summary Despite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a discipline too long defined by that fallacy of division, human or nonhuman, into conversation with animal studies, biosemiotics, and environmental communication, as well as other recent intellectual and activist movements for reconceptualizing relationships and interactions in the biosphere. This book is
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Animal 2017 Bildband gnd
Subject Human-animal communication.
Communication.
Animal communication.
Animal behavior.
Misinformation.
Communication
Animal Communication
Behavior, Animal
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
Communication
Animal communication
Animal behavior
Human-animal communication
Mensch
Kommunikation
Form Electronic book
Author Plec, Emily, 1974-
LC no. 2012031660
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