Dialogic Dogs and Phatic Felines: Speaking to and through Our Pets

While many pet owners acknowledge that they speak to their pet, Pet Communication has remained mostly overlooked by researchers. Through discourse analysis, this thesis is an attempt to analyze Pet Communication, which deals with human speech to a pet, about a pet, or through a pet. I analyze data w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dufour, Nicole M
Other Authors: M. Jill Brody
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2003
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-0703103-143335/