Published: 2017-12-24

The names of animals – subjectivisation or expropriation

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Abstract

The text analyses the process of naming Animals by humans. This process is treated here as a complex
phenomenon that has its psychological, sociological, social, philosophical and linguistic aspects. In the text, the Author focuses on two sides of the coin: naming animals can be treated as an act of subjectivisation, but on the other hand, by giving names to animals, humans try to reproduce an anthropocentric hierarchy of species. In this context it is worth analyzing not only giving names, but also abandoning or changing them.

Citation rules

Mamzer, H. (2017). The names of animals – subjectivisation or expropriation. Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies, (3), 163–178. Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/ZOOPHILOLOGICA/article/view/7126

No. 3 (2017)
Published: 2017-12-24


ISSN: 2719-2687
eISSN: 2451-3849
Ikona DOI 10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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