Xenolinguistics

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, and Derek Ball

4. Getting Out of Our Skin: What Decoding Interspecies Communication and Nonhuman Intelligence Can Tell Us About Deciphering Alien Languages-Denise L. 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, and Noam Chomsky

16. Where Does Universal Grammar Fit in the Universe? Human Cognition and the Strong Minimalist Thesis-Bridget D. Samuels 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