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In our consideration of how to decentre an anthropocentric view in linguistics, we will address the following research question: how do dairy cows and humans imbue their interspecies interaction as a semiotic resource with meaning that makes sense for both species under specific social conditions (Jørgensen, 2008:167). We address the question by using a social-interactional approach informed by conversation analysis (CA) (Goodwin, 2017, Mondada, 2016, 2018; Mondémé, 2021), which enables us to examine what the dairy cow makes relevant in the sequential organisation when interacting with a human. We show that the dairy cows make gaze important in their interaction. Gaze alone is sufficient to mobilize human interlocutor response, and gaze withdrawal by the human should take place for a successful communication (case-study 1 versus study 2). The case-studies of dairy cow–human interactions show that these interactions include much more than (human) sounds and (human) signs only: language is taken as languaging, as a social practice, embedded in a multimodal interactional exchange (Levinson and Holler 2014) that includes nonhuman animals as well. This also implies that linguists should therefore look beyond 'sound' and 'sign'. • Describing a pathway for making linguistics transcend the assumptions of human exceptionalism and species hierarchy to understand initiated interactions of dairy cows with humans. • Applying linguistic knowledge and tools for human linguistics i.e. conversation analysis (CA) to the interaction between humans and cows. • Description and analysis of how an interaction between a dairy cow and a human comes into being and proceeds. • Showing that dairy cows primarily use gaze and mobility (first case-study), and gaze and vocalization (second case-study) while interacting with the human. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]