Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication

Internatural Communication
Herausgeber: Plec, Emily

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspectives, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781138921870
• ISBN-10: 1138921874
• Artikelnr.: 42231924

Autorenporträt

Emily Plec is Professor of Communication Studies at Western Oregon University, US.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: An Introduction Part I:
Complicity 2. Animals as Media: Speaking Through/With Nonhuman Beings 3.
Beached Whales: Tracing the Rhetorical Force of Extraordinary Material
Articulations 4. Framing Primate Testing: How Supporters and Opponents
Construct Meaning and Shape the Debate 5. Absorbent and Yellow and Porous
is He: Animated Animal Bodies in SpongeBob Squarepants Part II: Implication
6. Stepping Up to the Veggie Plate: Framing Veganism as Living Your Values
7. The "Golden" Bond: Exploring Human-Canine Relationships with a Retriever
8. Communicating Social Support to Grieving Clients: The Veterinarians'
View 9. Flocking Bird-Human Ritual Communication 10. Banging on the Divide:
Cultural Reflection and Refraction at the Zoo Part III: Coherence 11.
Listening with the Third Eye: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Animal
Communicators 12. Thinking through Ravens: Human Hunters, Wolf-birds, and
Embodied Communication 13. Un-defining Man: The Case for Symbolic Animal
Communication 14. Difference without hierarchy: Narrative Paradigms and
Critical Animal Studies, A Meditation on Communication