The Challenge of Positioning Space and Time in Systemic Studies of Animal Utterances as Both Embodied and External Contexts
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2024Metadata
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10.2478/lf-2023-0026Abstract
Animal utterances are metastudied based on a framework describing relations between aspects of
utterance, genre, and lifeworld, form, content, act, time, and space. The study concerns a set of problems: How is
context perceived theoretically and empirically? Where are time and space positioned? Is time and space studied
separately or as chronotope, as spacetime, as a whole? What does embodied context mean? What are syste-
mic studies? Of the studies two focus on systemic projects, two on complexity and contextual variations, two
on time and space as separate phenomena, and three on spacetime. Since aspects such as signs, utterances,
and genres evolved before language, they presumably constituted animals’ communicational system, working
as a resource for communication even for all species, hominids and humans included. Studying such elements
challenges how we conceive how they interrelate, especially in spacetime. The study revealed that spacetime
was mostly positioned outside utterances and only occasionally as embodied. Integration of all key elements
was not found in the excerpt.