https://doi.org/10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA.2019.05.05
The changes in thinking about the world are manifested in linguistic changes. Pet cemetery is a good example to observe the changing relations between humans and animals. Various types of tombstones and the inscriptions they bear, not accompanied by formal regulations or consistent convention – although undoubtedly inspired by the exemplar of human cemetery – are a testament of particular relationships (attachment, friendship, love) that existed between dead pets with their owners. They also document how the social and cultural status of pet companions changes gradually – how the animals are no longer assumed as living beings without souls, and they become persons, rightful family members gaining the right to respect, memory and decent burial. But the change is a process which meets a resistance manifested in linguistic attempts to tear human and animal deaths apart.
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No. 5 (2019)
Published: 2019-12-31
10.31261/ZOOPHILOLOGICA
English
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Język Polski