Interspecies communication; phenomenological approaches to language; intuition; human-animal relations; animal communicators; species turn
Abstract :
[en] Intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) is a technique used worldwide by Indigenous peoples and a rising number of professional animal communicators, to interact with the more-than-human world. It importantly disrupts a number of historically contingent boundaries that have secured hierarchical oppositions between the human/non-human and the modern/Indigenous, while interrogating the fundamental dichotomy between presumably distinct physical (natural, sensually perceivable, ‘objective’) and non-physical (social, mentally/emotionally perceivable, ‘subjective’) worlds. In light of novel insights from diverse fields, including animal behaviour, cognitive ethology, and biosemiotics, as well as new theoretical spaces opened up through posthumanist and relational approaches, this less anthropocentric form ofcommunication can no longer be disregarded as merely exotic or mythological. Insights into IIC can contribute to the animal turn in linguistics by cross-fertilizing phenomenological, relational, and indigenous approaches, to contribute to ongoing efforts to decolonize methodologies, to further strengthen cognitive and interspecies justice, and to multiply voices in academia by practically and collaboratively engaging with human and non-human forms of knowing.
Research Center/Unit :
IRSS-LASC - Institut de recherches en Sciences Sociale. Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale et Culturelle - ULiège
Disciplines :
Anthropology
Author, co-author :
Wijngaarden, Vanessa ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Anthropologie de la communication
Language :
English
Title :
Intuitive Interspecies Communication and Language Beyond the Human: Bridging Posthumanist and Indigenous Understandings in practice.
Publication date :
2024
Event name :
GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology
Event organizer :
The Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics and SOAS University of London
Event date :
October 18-21
Audience :
International
Main work title :
The GLOCAL AFALA 2023: The Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics 2022 in Africa
Author, co-author :
Hadzantonis, Michael
Publisher :
Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics, London, United Kingdom
HE - 101124189 - ANICOM - Animal Communicators: Intuitive communication as a key to dialogic multispecies methods
Name of the research project :
Animal Communicators: Intuitive communication as a key to dialogic multispecies methods
Funders :
UJ - University of Johannesburg ERC - European Research Council European Union
Funding number :
101124189
Funding text :
The author is grateful to the University of Johannesburg and Keyan Tomaselli’s Rethinking Indigeneity project for early funding and support of the research underlying this paper. This research is co-funded by the European Union (ERC Consolidator, ANICOM, 101124189). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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