Communication of complication and complication of communication. Communication of human and non-human animal at the background assumptions of biosemiotics
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https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2022.09.02Keywords:
biosemiotics, biolinguistics, biocommunication, universals in languageAbstract
Tomasz Nowak’s article is part of a series of publications that deal with the problem of various aspects of communication. Here he focuses on the biological and semiotic dimensions of communication phenomena. His purpose is, inter alia, to give a biosemiotic reinterpretation of several key terms of classical information and communication theory. In particular, he is interested in the relationship between „communication of complication” and „complication of communication” as observed in different manifestations of communication between people and (other) animals. Nowak argues the biocommunication skills of human and non-human animals are separated by distance, both quantitative and qualitative.
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