Xenolinguistics: Exploring Alien Communication to Reframe Human Language

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Xenolinguistics studies how humans and hypothetical extraterrestrials might understand each other by blending linguistics, psychology, anthropology, astrobiology, and animal behavior to imagine contact, showing that language includes humor, ritual, deception, and social coordination beyond simply telling the truth, a view illustrated by Douglas Vakoch, Matthew Brown, Elin McCready, and Irene Pepperberg even though no aliens have been found.