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This lecture is co-sponsored by the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, College of Creative Studies, Center for Evolutionary Psychology, the Evolutionary Behavioral and Social Science seminar series; Departments of English, Linguistics, and Spanish & Portuguese, Comparative Literature Program, and Latin American & Iberian Studies Program.
Thomas A. Sebeok is widely considered to be the world's leading scholar in semiotic studies with special expertise in animal communication and Finno-Ugric linguistics. He has authored or edited several dozen books, including Animal communication; techniques of study and results of research; Aboriginal sign languages of the Americas and Australia; Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics; How animals communicate; and The Clever Hans phenomenon: communication with horses, whales, apes, and people. He holds five honorary doctorates, and maintains an active career of short-term visiting professorships in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America.
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