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Nonhuman Communication

Animal communication is non-symbolic and context-bound, allowing animals to convey meanings through visual, auditory, tactile, and chemical signals to help with tasks like finding mates and caring for young. Unlike human language, animal communication lacks properties like reflexivity, displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, and cultural transmission. It is transmitted biologically and animals can only use a limited, fixed set of signals related to particular objects or contexts.

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Nonhuman Communication

Animal communication is non-symbolic and context-bound, allowing animals to convey meanings through visual, auditory, tactile, and chemical signals to help with tasks like finding mates and caring for young. Unlike human language, animal communication lacks properties like reflexivity, displacement, arbitrariness, productivity, and cultural transmission. It is transmitted biologically and animals can only use a limited, fixed set of signals related to particular objects or contexts.

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NON-HUMAN COMMUNICATION AND TRANSMISSION IN ANIMAL LANGUAGE

I. NON-HUMAN COMMUNICATION

• WHAT IS COMMUNICATION?
Communication is an act of conveying meanings from one entity or
group to another through the use of mutually understood signs,
symbols, and semiotic rules.
• NON-HUMAN COMMUNICATION/ANIMAL COMMUNICATION
- Is the way anything non-human communicates without the use of
words.
- Animals communicate through a variety of signs, such as sounds
or movements.
- It is not symbolic, so it cannot preserve ideas of the past.

II. PROPERTY OF LANGUAGE

1. Reflexivity
- Animals can use the signals to talk about other signals.
2. Displacement
- Animals communicate in reaction to stimulus in the immediate
environment, such as food or danger. Human language is
considered context free, whereas animal communication is
mostly context bound.
3. Arbitrariness
- There is no connection between the conveyed message and its
signal.
4. Productivity
- Have only limited set of signals and each signal is fixed and
related to particular objects.
5. Cultural Transmission
- Animal communication ability is transmitted biologically, so they
are unable to learn other languages.
6. Duality of Patterning
- The communicative signals are fixed and cannot be broken into
different parts.

III. TRANSMISSION IN ANIMAL LANGUAGE

• HOW DO ANIMALS COMMUNICATE?


- Animals communicate using signals, which can include visual;
auditory, or sound-based; chemical, involving pheromones; or
tactile, touch-based, cues.
- Communication behaviors can help animals find mates, establish
dominance, defend territory, coordinate group behavior, and care
for young.
TYPES OF SIGNALS
1. Visual Communication
- Visual communication involves signals that can be seen.
Examples of these signals include gestures, facial expressions,
body postures, and coloration.
TWO FORMS OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION:
a. Badges- refers to the physical appearance of an animal that
hold certain meaning for their kind.
b. Displays- are the animal behaviors.

2. Auditory Communication
- Communication based on sound- is widely used in the animal
kingdom. The hissing, barking, purring, and growling are some
of the examples of auditory communication.
Example: Monkeys cry out a warning when a predator is near, giving the
other members of the troop a chance to escape.

3. Tactile Communication
- Tactile signals are fairly common in insects to convey
messages.
- They use this form of communication to show comfort or fear,
affection, and power.
EXAMPLE: In many primate species, members of a group will groom one
another- removing parasites and performing other hygiene tasks.

4. Chemical Communication/Pheromones
- A pheromone is a secreted chemical signal used to trigger
a response in another individual of the same species.
Pheromones are especially common among social insects,
such as ants and bees.
- Pheromones may attract the opposite sex, raise alarms,
mark a food trail, or trigger other, more complex behaviors.
Example: Ants use pheromones to communicate their social status, or role, in
the colony, and ants of different “castes” may respond differently to the same
pheromone signals.

NON-HUMAN COMMUNICATION AND TRANSMISSION IN ANIMAL LANGUAGE I. NON-HUMAN COMMUNICATION • WHAT IS COMMUNICATION? Commu
- Communication behaviors can help animals find mates, establish dominance, defend territory, coordinate group behavior, an

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