A Semiotic Methodology for Animal Studies
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Beschreibung
1. Introduction and purpose
1.1. Creation process
1.1.1. About the subject1.1.2. About the corpus
1.1.3. About the academic and social impact
1.2. Why use semiotics in animal studies
1.2.1. History of semiotics1.2.2. History of animal studies
1.3. Questions about methodology
1.3.1. Studying a subject from different academic fields1.3.2. Including new corpus categories
1.3.3. Hypothesis, biases and ideologies
2. Debates and controversies
2.1. Existing controversies2.1.1. Language
2.1.2. Consciousness
2.1.3. Emotions
2.2. The perspective of humanities
2.2.1. What is an animal?2.2.2. What are language sciences for?
2.2.3. The specific French academic tradition
2.3. Author position
2.3.1. The "lesser evil" position2.3.2. About the particular case of definitions
3. Necessary and problematic definitions
3.1. Necessary definitions3.1.1. Emotion
3.1.2. Consciousness
3.1.3. Memory
3.2. Problematic definitions
3.2.1. Language3.2.2. Emotions
3.2.3. Intelligence
3.2.4. Culture
4. Semiotic tools and concepts
4.1. How to pick semiotic tools4.1.1. Relevance
4.1.2. Peirce's tools
4.1.3. Intensity, frequency, context
4.2. Semiotic concepts
4.2.1. Intentional, conscious, unconscious
4.2.2. Jakobson's functions of language
4.2.3. Eco's semiotic theory
4.2.4. About the case of anthropomorphism
5. Intertheoricity: how to build bigger models
5.1. What is intertheoricity5.1.1. Academic position about interdisciplinarity
5.1.2. Difficulties and flaws of interdisciplinarity
5.1.3. Guillaume's theory
5.2. How intertheoricity allows for bigger models
5.2.1. A shared methodology5.2.2. Definitions: harmonisation and creation
5.2.3. How concepts "communicate" with each other
5.3. Why we need bigger models
5.3.1. More complex subjects5.3.2. Over-specialised researchers
5.3.3. More impact, less time
6. Strengths and flaws of ethological and biological methodology
6.1. Strengths to work with6.1.1. Ancient and strong field
6.1.2. Evolutive methodology
6.1.3. Observation-based science
6.2. Flaws to counter
6.2.1. Leaving or not leaving the laboratory6.2.2. Observation is disruption
6.2.3. How ideology can be rooted in science
7. Animal studies, animal ethics
7.1. Issues in animal studies7.1.1. Working with living beings
7.1.2. Difficulty to understand stranger minds
7.1.3. Situation of emergency
7.2. Ethical issues
7.2.1. About endangered species7.2.2. About complex species
7.2.3. About pain in animals
7.3. Solutions of semiotic methodology
7.3.1. On general issues7.3.2. On ethical issues
8. Building zoosemiotics
8.1. Between semiotics and animal studies8.1.1. Semiotics and biosemiotics
8.1.2. Biosemiotics and zoosemiotics
8.2. Progress wanted, and progress needed
8.2.1. Where we are8.2.2. Where we are going
8.2.3. Where we need to go
8.3. Conclusion
Eigenschaften
Breite: | 156 |
Gewicht: | 524 g |
Höhe: | 239 |
Länge: | 241 |
Seiten: | 199 |
Sprachen: | Englisch |
Autor: | Pauline Delahaye |