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Subject(s)

• Languages, Artificial [Browse]

Summary note

This fascinating book takes invented languages and explores the origins, purpose, and usage of these curious artefacts of culture. Written by experts in the field, chapters discuss a wide range of languages - from Esperanto to Klingon - and uncover the motives behind their creation and the outcomes of their existence.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Print version record.

Contents

• The spectrum of invention / Michael Adams
• Confounding Babel: international auxiliary languages / Arden R. Smith
• Invented vocabularies: the cases of Newspeak and Nadsat / Howard Jackson
• Tolkien's invented languages / E.S.C. Weiner and Jeremy Marshall
• 'Wild and whirling words': the invention and use of klingon / Marc Okrand, Michael Adams, Judith Hendricks-Hermans, and Sjaak Kroon
• Gaming languages and language games / James Portnow
• 'Oirish' inventions: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Paul Muldoon / Stephen Watt
• Revitalized languages as invented languages / Suzanne Romaine.

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ISBN

• 0191631612
• 9780191631610 ((electronic bk.))

OCLC

1119626975

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