A Semiotic Methodology for Animal Studies

• Main Author: Delahaye, Pauline (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Biosemiotics, 19
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Semiotics.; Linguistics-Methodology.; Life Sciences, general.; Research Methods in Language and Linguistics.; Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.

This monograph is about new perspectives 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 methodologic...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter1. Introduction and purpose
• Chapter2. Debates and controversies
• Chapter3. Necessary and problematic definitions
• Chapter4. Semiotic tools and concepts
• Chapter5. Intertheoricity: how to build bigger models
• chapter6. Strengths and flaws of ethological and biological methodology
• chapter7. Animal studies, animal ethics
• chapter8. Building zoosemiotics.