Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language

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List of Contributors
1 Goals of the Volume
2 Many Ways to Say Things: What the Diversity of Animal Communication on Earth Can Tell Us About the Likely Nature of Alien Language
3 Recognizing Intentional Signals and Their Meanings in Non-Human Communication
4 Getting Out of Our Skin: What Decoding Interspecies Communication and Nonhuman Intelligence Can Tell Us About Deciphering Alien Languages
5 Communicative Resources Beyond the Verbal Tier: A View on Xenolinguistics From Interactional Linguistics
6 How Studies of Communication Among Nonhumans and Between Humans and Nonhumans Can Inform SETI
7 Patterns of Communication of Human Complex Societies as a Blueprint for Alien Communication
8 Interstellar Competence: Applications of Linguistics and Communicative and Cultural Competencies to Extraterrestrial Communication
9 Why Do We Assume That We Can Decode Alien Languages?
10 Xenolinguistic Fieldwork
11 Investigating the Foundations of Meaning in a Xenolanguage
12 A Linguistic Perspective on the Drake Equation: Knowns and Unknowns for Human Languages and Extraterrestrial Communication
13 Cognition, Sensory Input, and Linguistics: A Possible Language for Blind Aliens
14 The Design Features of Extraterrestrial Language: A Domain-General Approach
15 Universal Grammar
16 Where Does Universal Grammar Fit in the Universe? Human Cognition and the Strong Minimalist Thesis
17 Learning and Adaptation of Communication Systems in Biological Life Forms
18 Writing Systems and METI: Off-the-Shelf Encoding of Human Physiology, Language, Cognition, and Culture
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