The Theory of Meaning

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Readings in Zoosemiotics 1
4. Prehistory
5. Introduction 23
6. Of Ideas 31
7. Of the Reason of Animals 35
8. General Principles of Expression 39
9. Essentials in Zoosemiotics
10. Introduction 51
11. The Theory of Meaning 61
12. Zoosemiotics: At the Intersection of Nature and Culture 77
13. “Talking” with Animals: Zoosemiotics Explained 87
14. The Word ‘Zoosemiotics’ 95
15. Chapters from Animal Communication Studies
16. Introduction 101
17. The Study of Animal Communication: An Overview 111
18. The Animal’s Expression 123
19. Decoding the Language of the Bee 141
20. Meaning, Reference, and Intentionality in the Natural Vocalizations of Monk 157
21. Intentional Communication and Social Play: How and Why Animals Negotiate and Agree to Play 175
22. Prefigurements of Art 195
23. Theoretical and Metatheoretical Perspectives
24. Introduction 247
25. The Logical Analysis of Animal Communication 253
26. Animal Communication and the Study of Cognition 279
27. Problems in Cetacean and Other Mammalian Communication 303
28. Metalogue: What is an Instinct? 313
29. Human(itie)s, Animals and Contemporary Zoosemiotics
30. Introduction 335
31. Is Man Language? 343
32. The Animal in the Study of Humanity 357
33. The Biosemiotics and Phylogenesis of Culture 377
34. Biotranslation: Translation between Umwelten 411
35. Index 427