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    "title": "Exploring Communication Systems of Humans and Non-Human Animals: A Linguistic and Semiotic Perspective",
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    "abstract": "<p>This study examines human and non-human animal communication from a linguistic–semiotic perspective to address the limitations of anthropocentric models that treat language and animal signaling as a strict dichotomy. Existing studies often emphasize human linguistic uniqueness without adequately accounting for semiotic continuities across species. To address this gap, the study conceptualizes communication as a semiotic continuum rather than a binary distinction. Using a qualitative comparative design, the research analyzes multimodal data from human communication and selected animal systems, including honeybee dances, dolphin echolocation, birdsong, and primate alarm calls. Data were examined through a coding framework based on Peircean semiotics and Hockett’s design features to ensure analytical rigor and comparability. The findings indicate that human communication is distinguished by symbolic abstraction, open-ended productivity, recursion, and metacommunication. However, animal communication systems also demonstrate structured, intentional, and adaptive properties shaped by ecological and social demands. Continuities across species include proto-syntactic patterning in primate calls, cultural transmission in birdsong, and multimodal coordination in dolphins and bees. Despite these shared features, animal systems generally lack the generativity and metalinguistic reflexivity characteristic of human language. The study concludes that communication should be understood as a graded semiotic continuum, with human language representing the most elaborated form of meaning-making rather than an isolated system. This reconceptualization contributes to theories of language evolution and broadens semiotic inquiry by situating human communication within a wider ecology of signs. </p>",
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        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
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        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
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            "word": "human language"
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            "word": "Animal Communication"
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            "word": "Symbolic Systems"
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            "word": "Language Evolution."
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            "first_name": "Harlinah",
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            "last_name": "Sahib",
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            "institution": "Hasanuddin University",
            "department": "Faculty of Cultural Sciences"
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            "institution": "Hasanuddin University",
            "department": "Linguistic Department"
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    "date_submitted": "2025-10-30T19:49:34.761000-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2026-01-13T14:45:24.970000-08:00",
    "date_published": "2026-04-15T09:43:00-07:00",
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