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The Spell Of The Sensuous, Animals
Almost all animals communicate. As author, David Abram, mentions in his text, The Spell of the Sensuous, animals “…communicate with each other, often employing a repertoire of gestures, from “marking” territory with chemical secretions, to the facial expressions of many mammal species, to the hosts of rattles, cries, howls, and growls…” (78). Unlike most animals, the preferred means of communication is language. Language is more than simply a method of communicating information, it holds much more power, and that power is dependent entirely on how we employ it.
In everyday human discourse, the significance of oral language is “… carried by the tone, rhythm, and resonance of spoken expressions…” (79), instead of merely the words used. Aside

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