'Do animals have language?'

It turns out to answer this question involves unpacking centuries' worth of anthropocentrism.

I wrote this for U-Lingua, the magazine of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (ULAB). The full title is 'From Manifesting Justice to Language Games: Ideological Underbellies of the Debate on Animal Communication', and can be found on p.38 of U-Lingua's Issue 6.

Cover image: my bat Neev, who is good at sitting very politely and representing the bat species that apparently also have recursive syntax.