ABSTRACT

Despite its inherent interdisciplinarity, the Communication discipline has remained an almost entirely anthropocentric enterprise. This book represents early and prominent forays into the subject of human-animal communication from a Communication Studies perspective, an effort that brings a discipline too long defined by that fallacy of division, human or nonhuman, into conversation with animal studies, biosemiotics, and environmental communication, as well as other recent intellectual and activist movements for reconceptualizing relationships and interactions in the biosphere. This book is a much-needed point of entry for future scholarship on animal-human communication, as well as the whole range of communication possibilities among the more-than-human world. It offers a groundbreaking transformation of higher education by charting new directions for communication research, policy formation, and personal and professional practices involving animals.

chapter |13 pages

Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication

An Introduction

part |76 pages

Complicity

chapter |18 pages

Animals as Media

Speaking through/with Nonhuman Beings

chapter |19 pages

Beached Whales

Tracing the Rhetorical Force of Extraordinary Material Articulations

chapter |21 pages

Framing Primate Testing

How Supporters and Opponents Construct Meaning and Shape the Debate

chapter |14 pages

Absorbent and Yellow and Porous is He

Animated Animal Bodies in Spongebob Squarepants

part |91 pages

Implication

chapter |20 pages

Stepping Up to the Veggie Plate

Framing Veganism as Living Your Values

chapter |16 pages

The “Golden” Bond

Exploring Human-Canine Relationships with a Retriever

chapter |13 pages

Communicating Social Support to Grieving Clients

The Veterinarians' View

chapter |20 pages

Flocking

Bird–Human Ritual Communication

chapter |20 pages

Banging on the Divide

Cultural Reflection and Refraction at the Zoo

part |81 pages

Coherence

chapter |22 pages

Listening with the Third Eye

A Phenomenological Ethnography of Animal Communicators

chapter |19 pages

Thinking Through Ravens

Human Hunters, Wolf-Birds and Embodied Communication

chapter |19 pages

Un-Defining Man

The Case for Symbolic Animal Communication

chapter |19 pages

Difference Without Hierarchy

Narrative Paradigms and Critical Animal Studies—A Meditation on Communication