Perspectives on a 2019 Tiger-Human Interaction Incident in Malaysia

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  • George M. Jacobs Centre for a Responsible Future
  • Shong Jian Fong National University of Singapore

Résumé

This article describes a 2019 incident in Malaysia in which two tigers were seen near a village. After providing context on the situation of tigers internationally and in Malaysia, the article reports an ecolinguistic study of 10 online articles on the incident from established media sources. Categories used in analyzing the articles were human concern for tigers, tigers owned by humans, tigers provoking fear, animals for human entertainment, tigers as criminals, use of pronouns to refer to tigers, and provision of background on the situation of tigers in Malaysia. The analysis found that the online articles reflected a human-centric perspective. This perspective contrasts with a humans-as-fellow-animals view. The latter view is supported by cited studies of people’s perspective in rural India and of the status of a wide variety of nonhuman animals as thinking, feeling beings. Recommendations are made that the adoption of a humans-as-fellow-animals perspective may be important to the welfare and continued existence in the wild of tigers and other endangered species.

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2020-03-10

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Jacobs, G. . M., & Fong, S. J. (2020). Perspectives on a 2019 Tiger-Human Interaction Incident in Malaysia. Ecolinguística: Revista Brasileira De Ecologia E Linguagem (ECO-REBEL), 6(1), 41–51. Consulté à l’adresse https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/erbel/article/view/29896

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020)

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