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• Languages, Artificial [Browse]

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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.

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Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• 1 The Spectrum of Invention
• 2 Confounding Babel: International Auxiliary Languages
• 3 Invented Vocabularies: The Cases of Newspeak and Nadsat
• 4 Tolkien's Invented Languages
• 5 'Wild and Whirling Words': The Invention and Use of Klingon
• 6 Gaming Languages and Language Games
• 7 'Oirish' Inventions: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Paul Muldoon
• 8 Revitalized Languages as Invented Languages
• APPENDICES
• 1 Owning Language
• 2 Esperanto's Zenith
• 3 Nadsat and the Critics
• 4 Tolkien's Languages: A Brief Anthology of Commentary
• 5 Advanced Klingon
• 6 Language Games in Gaming Languages
• 7 The Case for Synthetic Scots
• 8 A Reconstructed Universal Language
• Index.

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ISBN

0-19-163161-2

OCLC

1119626975

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