Comentarios críticos sobre el libro Animal languages, de Eva Meijer

Victor M. Longa Martínez

doi:10.15304/verba.48.6942

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Published: 29-10-2021

Victor M. Longa Martínez⁺⁻

Victor M. Longa Martínez

Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Spain

Vol 48 (2021), Notes

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/verba.48.6942

Submitted: 17-06-2020 Accepted: 24-08-2020 Published: 29-10-2021

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Abstract

This paper provides with a critical analysis of the book Animal languages, written by the Dutch philosopher Eva Meijer. The author aims at showing that non-human animals do have complex cognitive and communicative skills; however, her strategy links the aforementioned communicative complexity to the linguistic nature of animal communicative systems. Beyond arguing that animals are endowed with language (a quite common claim by ethologists), the book leaves much to be desired from a scientific point of view. The paper will show that Meijer’s book is full of contradictions, exaggerations, bizarre or baseless claims, distortions of other authors’ assertions, mistakes in the use of bibliographical references or serious ignorance of a number of aspects.

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Eva Meijer, animal communication, animal cognition, language, syntax

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