Zoösemiotics

动物符号学

A branch of semiotics that studies the features of human communication which, as the end products of an evolutionary series, are shared with animal systems of communication; opposed to ‘anthroposemiotic’ features, which are exclusively human. Under the heading of ‘zoösemiotics features / systems’ fall certain features of tone of voice, facial expression, gesture, etc. as well as several mechanisms of animal communication which seem not to overlap with human signalling systems (e.g. chemical signals (pheromones), echolocation).

符号学的一个分支，研究人类信递的哪些特征作为进化系列的最终成品，也为动物信递系统所共有；与“人类符号学”对立，后者研究只属于人类信递的特征。归在“动物符号学特征/系统”名目下的有嗓音音调的某些特征，脸部表情和身势等，以及几种似乎不与人类信号系统重合的动物信递机制（例如化学信号（信息素）和回响定位法）。