{"title":"Issues of phonetics and social action in human-animal interaction","authors":"Richard Ogden , Leelo Keevallik","doi":"10.1016/j.langcom.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In encounters between humans and animals, both parties make use of sound, some of which are vocal. Since the anatomy of vocal tracts is different in different species, the production of sounds varies, while humans find ways to partially match the acoustics of animal sounds. Analytic challenges lie in the representation of the various sounds, as we need to move beyond the IPA, and in establishing when and how animals become participants in interspecies interaction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47575,"journal":{"name":"Language & Communication","volume":"104 ","pages":"Pages 113-120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Language & Communication","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530925000655","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In encounters between humans and animals, both parties make use of sound, some of which are vocal. Since the anatomy of vocal tracts is different in different species, the production of sounds varies, while humans find ways to partially match the acoustics of animal sounds. Analytic challenges lie in the representation of the various sounds, as we need to move beyond the IPA, and in establishing when and how animals become participants in interspecies interaction.
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This journal is unique in that it provides a forum devoted to the interdisciplinary study of language and communication. The investigation of language and its communicational functions is treated as a concern shared in common by those working in applied linguistics, child development, cultural studies, discourse analysis, intellectual history, legal studies, language evolution, linguistic anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, the politics of language, pragmatics, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, and sociolinguistics. The journal invites contributions which explore the implications of current research for establishing common theoretical frameworks within which findings from different areas of study may be accommodated and interrelated. By focusing attention on the many ways in which language is integrated with other forms of communicational activity and interactional behaviour, it is intended to encourage approaches to the study of language and communication which are not restricted by existing disciplinary boundaries.