Animal Umwelten in a Changing World: Zoosemiotic Perspectives

by Kristin Armstrong Oma, Morten Tønnessen, Timo Maran

The book raises semiotic questions of human-animal relations: what is the semiotic character of different species, how humans endow animals with meaning, and how animal sign exchange and communication has coped with environmental change. The book takes a zoosemiotic approach and considers different species as being integrated with the environment via their specific umwelt or subjective perceptual world. The authors elaborate J. v. Uexkull's concept...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 994977280X
• ISBN13: 9789949772803
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Tartu Press
• Length: 276 Pages