The Ideational Metafunction and Nonhuman Signalling

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The Ideational Metafunction and Nonhuman
Signalling

• OR
• Doctor Dolittle exposed as fraud!
• A paper given to the 17th European Systemic
  Functional Linguistics Conference,
• 1-4 August 2005

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Bees do it(Apis mellifera)
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The Signal as two stimulus-response pairs
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The Signal as a single messaging process
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Vervet monkeys(Cercopithecus aethiops)
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Birds do itBlack-capped chickadee(Poecile
atricapilla)
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Diana monkeys(Cercopithecus diana)
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Chimpanzee(Pan troglodytes)
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The Ideational Metafunction and Nonhuman
Signalling