TY  - BOOK
AU  - Oberhaus, Daniel
TI  - Extraterrestrial languages
SN  - 9780262043069
U1  - 576.83  
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Space and time in language
KW  - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (Study group : U.S.)
KW  - Extraterrestrial anthropology
N1  - https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262043069/extraterrestrial-languages
N2  - If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?

The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied by another, more complicated one: if there is extraterrestrial life, how would we communicate with it? In this book, Daniel Oberhaus leads readers on a quest for extraterrestrial communication. Exploring Earthlings' various attempts to reach out to non-Earthlings over the centuries, he poses some not entirely answerable questions: If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand? What languages will they (and we) speak? Is there not only a universal grammar (as Noam Chomsky has posited), but also a grammar of the universe?
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