Entre éthologie et sémiotique : Mondes animaux, compétences et accommodation
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Marie Renoue
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Pascal Carlier
Résumé
Notre projet est, depuis une dizaine d’années, de proposer une approche du comportement animal alternative à celle, quinquagénaire, ubiquitaire et féconde, inaugurée par Thomas A. Sebeok. Née de la rencontre entre l’éthologie cognitive et la sémiotique greimassienne, cette éthosémiotique, moins attentive à la communication, au « paradigme peircien » (Brier 2008), aux signes ou à une modélisation systématique et englobante (comme celle de la biosémiotique de Kull), essaie plutôt de rendre compte de la diversité et d’une altérité animale qui ne soit ni totalement hermétique ni réductrice ni hiérarchique (anthropotéléologique). À partir d’une reprise critique de la notion uexküllienne d’Umwelt, trop fixiste et close, et d’une sémiotisation des notions de compétences phylogénétiques et ontogénétiques, nous proposons de considérer des modèles alternatifs, en particulier : celui du phénoménologue Maurice Merleau-Ponty qui propose en 1942 de distinguer des formes de comportement animal à partir des degrés d’adhérence du sujet à son milieu et celui du psychologue Jean Piaget traitant d’accommodation et d’assimilation, deux notions-clés pour rendre compte de la perméabilité et de la variabilité des sujets animaux. Même si l’exemple final d’une inter-accommodation et intercompréhension possible entre l’homme et son chien peut apparaître comme une invitation ou une incitation à reprendre les derniers travaux de Sebeok sur la communication interspécifique, à croiser un regard déjà formé et une approche en cours d’élaboration, il faut néanmoins noter les difficultés terminologiques, donc conceptuelles et interprétatives que pose toute approche interdisciplinaire.
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- Integration mechanism and transcendental semiosis
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