Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language [Hardcover]

Xenolinguistics brings together biologists, anthropologists, linguists and other experts specialising on language and communication to explore what non-human, non-Earthbound language might look like.

1. Goals of the VolumeJeffrey Punske

2. Many Ways to Say Things: What the Diversity of Animal Communication on Earth Can Tell Us About the Likely Nature of Alien LanguageArik Kershenbaum

3. Recognizing Intentional Signals and Their Meaning in Non-Human CommunicationCatherine Hobaiter, Adriano R. Lameira, and Derek Ball

4. Getting Out of Our Skin: What Decoding Interspecies Communication and Nonhuman Intelligence Can Tell Us About Deciphering Alien LanguagesDenise L. Herzing

5. Communicative Resources Beyond the Verbal Tier: A View on Xenolinguistics from Interactional LinguisticsHeike Ortner

6. How Studies of Communication Among Nonhumans and Between Humans and Nonhumans Can Inform SETIIrene M. Pepperberg

7. Patterns of Communication of Human Complex Societies as a Blueprint for Alien CommunicationAnamaria Berea

8. Interstellar Competence: Applications of Linguistics and Communicative and Cultural Competencies to Extraterrestrial CommunicationSumayya K.R. Granger, Judd Ethan Ruggill, and Ken S. McAllister

9. Why Do We Assume That We Can Decode Alien Languages?Con Slobodchikoff

10. Xenolinguistic FieldworkClaire Bowern

11. Investigating the Foundations of Meaning in a XenolanguageAndrew McKenzie

12. A Linguistic Perspective on the Drake Equation: Knowns and Unknowns for Human Languages and Extraterrestrial CommunicationDaniel Ross

13. Cognition, Sensory Input, and Linguistics : A Possible Language for Blind AliensSheri Wells-Jensen

14.The Design Features of Extraterrestrial Langl³E