The Capacities and Limitations of Language in Animal Fantasies

Drawing on the field of zoosemiotics, this paper explores the representation of language and other forms of communication in animal fantasy fiction, citing Richard Adams’s Watership Down (1972) as a key example of a text which depicts a wide spectrum of communication channels. Zoosemiotics provides...

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Main Author: Douglas Leatherland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Humanimalia 2020-03-01
Series:Humanimalia
Online Access:https://humanimalia.org/article/view/9455