This paper is situated in the context of debates about animals and language, and animal-human relations. It is also informed by the argument that words are neither the exclusive property of language (Motamedi Fraser 2015), nor the exclusive property of humans. The paper illustrates this point by exploring how some companion dogs make 'dog words' with their bodies and, further, how they are able/can be enabled to transform the meanings of these words by inventing and/or participating in word encounters. In the spirit of Lev Vygotsky, the paper argues that such encounters are a way of thinking with words in 'complexes.' Through a series of concrete examples, the paper shows how intimacy is integral to this thinking, in its every dimension. Th...
Theoretically positioned between critical animal studies and science studies within German cultural ...
Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into theirs?...
The relationship between humans and dogs is complex and enmeshed with socially-constructed expectati...
Barbara Rode Uniwersytet WarszawskiWydział Polonistyki Abstract Do animals u...
In this senior independent study, I seek to answer the question: How do humans judge animal intellig...
In the last decades, putative nonhuman linguistic skills have been proposed as an ess...
Drawing on analyses of scientific knowledge and language from Foucault and Lyotard, this article exp...
Abstract Drawing on analyses of scientific knowledge and language from Foucault and Lyotard, this ar...
With the aim to clarify the definition of humans as “linguistic animals”, in the present paper I fun...
The words “do animals talk to each other the way people do?” are fighting words in the fields of ani...
[Abstract] Sandra Grötsch, University of Oulu, Finland Conversation strategies between animals and h...
What is language? People might say that humans are not the only living beings that use language. The...
The view that nonhuman animals cannot be political actors because they cannot speak is common in bot...
This thesis investigates the pragmatics of dog-related speech, or the ways in which people use langu...
Deceptive and evasive use of language plays a major role in human exploitation and abuse of animals....
Theoretically positioned between critical animal studies and science studies within German cultural ...
Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into theirs?...
The relationship between humans and dogs is complex and enmeshed with socially-constructed expectati...
Barbara Rode Uniwersytet WarszawskiWydział Polonistyki Abstract Do animals u...
In this senior independent study, I seek to answer the question: How do humans judge animal intellig...
In the last decades, putative nonhuman linguistic skills have been proposed as an ess...
Drawing on analyses of scientific knowledge and language from Foucault and Lyotard, this article exp...
Abstract Drawing on analyses of scientific knowledge and language from Foucault and Lyotard, this ar...
With the aim to clarify the definition of humans as “linguistic animals”, in the present paper I fun...
The words “do animals talk to each other the way people do?” are fighting words in the fields of ani...
[Abstract] Sandra Grötsch, University of Oulu, Finland Conversation strategies between animals and h...
What is language? People might say that humans are not the only living beings that use language. The...
The view that nonhuman animals cannot be political actors because they cannot speak is common in bot...
This thesis investigates the pragmatics of dog-related speech, or the ways in which people use langu...
Deceptive and evasive use of language plays a major role in human exploitation and abuse of animals....
Theoretically positioned between critical animal studies and science studies within German cultural ...
Everywhere dogs are found, they are stitched into human hearts. But are humans stitched into theirs?...
The relationship between humans and dogs is complex and enmeshed with socially-constructed expectati...