Abstract
Intuitive interspecies communication (IIC) is a technique used worldwide by Indigenous peoples and a rising number of professional animal communicators, to interact with the more-than-human world. It importantly disrupts a number of historically contingent boundaries that have secured hierarchical oppositions between the human/non-human and the modern/Indigenous, while interrogating the fundamental dichotomy between presumably distinct physical (natural, sensually perceivable, 'objective') and non-physical (social, mentally/emotionally perceivable, 'subjective') worlds. In light of novel insights from diverse fields, including animal behaviour, cognitive ethology, and biosemiotics, as well as new theoretical spaces opened up through posthumanist and relational approaches, this less anthropocentric form of communication can no longer be disregarded as merely exotic or mythological. Insights into IIC can contribute to the animal turn in linguistics by cross-fertilizing phenomenological, relational, and indigenous approaches, to contribute to ongoing efforts to decolonize methodologies, to further strengthen cognitive and interspecies justice, and to multiply voices in academia by practically and collaboratively engaging with human and non-human forms of knowing.