1. Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication: An Introduction Part I: Complicity 2. Animals as Media: Speaking Through/With Nonhuman Beings 3. Beached Whales: Tracing the Rhetorical Force of Extraordinary Material Articulations 4. Framing Primate Testing: How Supporters and Opponents Construct Meaning and Shape the Debate 5. Absorbent and Yellow and Porous is He: Animated Animal Bodies in SpongeBob Squarepants Part II: Implication 6. Stepping Up to the Veggie Plate: Framing Veganism as Living Your Values 7. The "Golden" Bond: Exploring Human-Canine Relationships with a Retriever 8. Communicating Social Support to Grieving Clients: The Veterinarians’ View 9. Flocking Bird-Human Ritual Communication 10. Banging on the Divide: Cultural Reflection and Refraction at the Zoo Part III: Coherence 11. Listening with the Third Eye: A Phenomenological Ethnography of Animal Communicators 12. Thinking through Ravens: Human Hunters, Wolf-birds, and Embodied Communication 13. Un-defining Man: The Case for Symbolic Animal Communication 14. Difference without hierarchy: Narrative Paradigms and Critical Animal Studies, A Meditation on Communication

"Plec’s anthology is organized around three ideas that deeply engage the reader, complicity, implication, and coherence. [...] In addition to implicating the reader, Perspectives on Human-Animal Communication would be a great text to teach from at any level. [...] The issues raised on these pages are imperative for creating a sustainable and humane world." --Julie Kalil Schutten, Environmental Communication"Emily Plec’s collection of essays on human-animal communication presents a variety of views on the borderlands where species meet and interact, and how humans communicate on behalf of animals, about animals, and sometimes with animals. These interactions present a rich tapestry of persuasive efforts – some performed by agents, others by mediators for those perceived as voiceless in the mainstream of human communications theory." --Alex C. Parrish, Journal for Critical Animal Studies