User:Fences and windows/Alien language

Reworking Alien language.

Structure:
 * 1) Definition. Myra Barnes coined the use of exolinguistics in this context, Sheila Finch introduced xenolinguistics.
 * 2) SETI
 * 3) Communicating with aliens: Voyager Golden Record, Pioneer plaque, Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
 * 4) Comparison to studying Animal communication, e.g. Laurance Doyle of SETI.
 * 5) Ideas about alien communication
 * 6) In Sci-fi. Babel fish, Universal translator, Klingon language, Fictional language, Suzette Haden Elgin
 * 7) Conlangs

Resources

 * Sherri Wells-Jensen
 * http://www.jstor.org/pss/4238984
 * http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pehook/Exolinguistics.PDF
 * http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_retrospection&task=detail&id=692
 * http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/696/cracking-the-stellar-primer
 * Category:Interstellar messages
 * http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6V1N-412S314-K&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1003523301&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=5ff1435714f8e2aa4f5633f3ca520dca
 * http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026784.000
 * John Elliott
 * http://www.geo.de/GEO/technik/59851.html?nv=rss
 * http://www.20min.ch/print/story/16274164
 * http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28964/1.html
 * http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/3353407/Scientist-develops-programme-to-understand-alien-languages.html
 * http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/080501-technov-univ-translator.html
 * http://publish.seti.org/art_science/2003/
 * http://www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=791
 * http://www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=782
 * http://www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=779
 * http://www.seti.org/Page.aspx?pid=1088
 * http://io9.com/371213/all-the-best-alien-languages-in-one-place
 * http://linguistlist.org/donation/fund-drive2006/SciFi-BookList.cfm
 * http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20010226/nonverbal.shtml / http://www.sfcanada.ca/winter2005/nonverbalcommunication.htm
 * http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EH86AAAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
 * http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BLcMENlxgv0C
 * http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1338&context=wordways