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Cognition, Language, and Consciousness: Integrative Levels, Vol. 2 (Includes discussion of animal communication in multiple chapters) » Read Now
by Gary Greenberg, Ethel Tobach. 301 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Psycholinguistics -- Congresses. 4. Animal communication -- Congresses. 5. Consciousness...language and any system of animal communication may be spurious unless...
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The Question of Animal Awareness: Evolutionary Continuity of Mental Experience (Chap. 2 "The Versatility of Animal Communication") » Read Now
by Donald R. Griffin. 138 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...CHAPTER 2 The Versatility of Animal Communication 15...CHAPTER 2 The Versatility of Animal Communication THE ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION...surprising discovery about animal...
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Language, Mind, and Brain (Chap. 16 "Animal Communication as Evidence of Thinking") » Read Now
by Thomas W. Simon, Robert J. Scholes. 272 pgs.

Collections: Philosophy, Psychology, Entire Library

Examines facets of language, including logic & language, artificial language intelligence, animal communication, representation, intensions, & metaphor.
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Animal Consciousness (Chap. 7 "Animal Communication") » Read Now
by Daisie Radner, Michael Radner. 237 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Any intelligent debate on the ethical treatment of animals hinges on understanding their mental processes. The idea that consciousness in animals is beyond comprehension is usually traced to the 17th-century philosopher Rene Descartes whose concept of animals as beast machines lacking consciousness...
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Any intelligent debate on the ethical treatment of animals hinges on understanding their mental processes. The idea that consciousness in animals is beyond comprehension is usually traced to the 17th-century philosopher Rene Descartes whose concept of animals as beast machines lacking consciousness influenced arguments for more than 200 years. But in reviewing Descartes' theory of mind, Daisie and Michael Radner demonstrate in Animal Consciousness that he did not hold the view so frequently attributed to him. In fact, they contend that Descartes distinguished two types of consciousness, which make it easier to discuss the conscious experiences of animals and to trace the debate into the post-Darwinian era.
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Signalers and Receivers in Animal Communication, in Annual Review of Psychology » Read Now
by Robert M. Seyfarth, Dorothy L. Cheney. 29 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Signalers and receivers in animal communication. by Robert M. Seyfarth...Cheney Abstract In animal communication natural selection favors...states of others distinguishes...
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Language and Human Behavior (Discussion of animal communication begins on p. 11) » Read Now
by Derek Bickerton. 178 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...misunderstanding arises because animal communication systems, 2. and all the...animals.However, the term animal communication system is widely used and...body language, or...
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Comparative Rhetoric: An Historical and Cross-Cultural Introduction (Chap. 1 "Rhetoric among Social Animals") » Read Now
by George A. Kennedy. 244 pgs.

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This is the first book to offer a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression and communication. The author explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral...
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This is the first book to offer a cross-cultural overview of rhetoric as a universal feature of expression and communication. The author explores analogies to human rhetoric in animal communication, rhetorical factors in the origin of human speech, and rhetorical conventions in traditionally oral societies around the world. The second part of the book discusses rhetoric as understood and practised in early literate cultures, seeking to identify what is unique or unusual in the western tradition.
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Conversations with Dolphins: These Engaging and Highly Intelligent Animals Play Major Roles in Language Research, in Psychology Today » Read Now
by Susan Chollar, William Booth. 6 pgs.

...network together is communication." Wary of the...approached the animal language problem...did not consider animals capable of using...mind. Symbolic communication in...
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Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Ants, Wasps, Bees, and Termites » Read Now
by Robert K. Vander Meer, Michael D. Breed, Karl E. Espelie, Mark L. Winston. 374 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...ISBN 0-8133-8976-3 hc 1. Animal communication. 2. Pheromones. 3. Insect...authorities in the study of animal communication vary considerably. Wilson...1978 suggested that...
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Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a "Language" among Bees » Read Now
by Adrian M. Wenner, Patrick H. Wells. 402 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Honeybee--Behavior. 2. Animal communication. I. Wells, Patrick...remarkable systems of communication that nature has evolved...elsewhere in the entire animal kingdom" von...
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Cognitive Ethology: The Minds of Other Animals Essays in Honor of Donald R. Griffin (Chap. 6 "Truth and Deception in Animal Communication" and Chap. 9 "Animal Communication and the Study of Cognition") » Read Now
by Carolyn A. Ristau, Donald R. Griffin. 332 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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The Psychology of Communication (Chap. 10 "Communication among Animals") » Read Now
by Jon Eisenson, J. Jeffery Auer, John V. Irwin. 394 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library