Timothy Jenkins

Martian Linguistics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the role of language in the hope of interplanetary contact and exchange, drawing on episodes from US Air Force history and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), together with science fiction that uses these sources.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781803741758
• Artikelnr.: 72555349

Autorenporträt

Timothy Jenkins retired from Cambridge University in 2019. He trained at the Oxford Institute of Social Anthropology, with fieldwork in France and Britain. His research interests include moral uses of scientific discoveries and the multiple dimensions of time. He has also published Of Flying Saucers and Social Scientists (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Yearning for contact - Communication and its failures - Exercises in Martian linguistics - Four novels of «first contact».