Xenolinguistics : Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language

ISBN : 9781032399591

Author : Douglas A. Vakoch

Publisher : Routledge

Year : 2024

Language : English

Type : Book

Description : List of Contributors 1. Goals of the volume—Jeffrey Punske 2. Many Ways to Say Things: What the Diversity of Animal Communication on Earth Can Tell Us About the Likely Nature of Alien Language—Arik Kershenbaum 3. Recognizing Intentional Signals and Their Meaning in Non-Human Communication-- Catherine Hobaiter, Adriano R. Lameira, Derek Ball 4. Getting Out of Our Skin: What Decoding Interspecies Communication and Nonhuman Intelligence Can Tell Us About Deciphering Alien Languages.—Denise Herzing 5. Communicative Resources Beyond the Verbal Tier: A View on Xenolinguistics from Interactional Linguistics-- Heike Ortner 6. How Studies of Communication among Nonhumans and between Humans and Nonhumans Can Inform SETI-- Irene M. Pepperberg 7. Patterns of Communication of Human Complex Societies as a Blueprint for Alien Communication-- Anamaria Berea 8. Interstellar Competence: Applications of Linguistics and Communicative and Cultural Competencies to Extraterrestrial Communication-- Sumayya 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 fieldwork—Claire Bowern 11. Investigating the foundations of meaning in a xenolanguage-- Andrew McKenzie 12. A Linguistic Perspective on the Drake Equation: Knowns and Unknowns for Human Languages and Extraterrestrial Communication-- Daniel Ross 13. Cognition, Sensory Input, and Linguistics : A Possible Language for Blind Aliens-- Sheri Wells-Jensen 14.The Design Features of Extraterrestrial Language: A Domain-General Approach-- Darcy Sperlich 15. Universal Grammar—Ian Roberts, Jeffrey Watumull, Noam Chomsky 16. Where Does Universal Grammar Fit in the Universe? Human Cognition and the Strong Minimalist Thesis—Bridget D. Samuel and Jeffrey Punske 17. Learning and adaptation of communication systems in biological life forms-- Jessie S. Nixon and Fabian Tomaschek 18. Writing systems and METI: Off-the-shelf encoding of human physiology, language, cognition, and culture—Daniel Harbour

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