Reading Fictional Languages
Language: English
Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2024
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2024 Edinburgh University Press hardcover edition. Unread copy in very good condition. Contents: 1. Introduction: reading fictional languages by Israel A. C. Noletto, Jessica Norledge, and Peter Stockwell, 2. Conlanging with non-conlangers: the art of language invention in television and media by David J. Peterson and Jessie Sams, 3. On the inner workings of language creation: using conlangs to drive reader engagement in fictional worlds by Benjamin Johnson, Anthony Gutierrez, and Nicolas Matias Campi, 4. Dialects in constructed languages by Harry Cook, 5. Alien typographies in sf and the influence of Asian languages by Victor Fernandes Andrade and Sebastiao Alves Teixeira Lopes, 6. Design intentions and actual perception of fictional languages: Quenya, Sindarin, and Na'vi by Bettina Beinhoff, 7. The phonaesthetics of constructed languages: results from an online rating experiment by Christine Mooshammer, Dominique Bobeck, Henrik Hornecker, Kieran Meinhardt, Olga Olina, Marie Christin Walch, and Qiang Xia, 8. Tolkien's use of invented languages in 'The Lord of the Rings' by James K. Tauber, 9. Changing tastes: reading the cannibalese of Charles Dickens' 'Holiday Romance' and nineteenth-century popular culture by Katie Wales, 10. Dialectal extrapolation as a literary experiment in Aldiss' 'A spot of Confrontation' by Israel A. C. Noletto, 11. Women, fire, and dystopian things by Jessica Norledge, 12. Building the conomasticon: names and naming in fictional worlds by Rebecca Gregory, 13. The language of Lapine in 'Watership Down' by Kimberley Pager-McClymont, 14. Unspeakable languages by Peter Stockwell.…
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- Title
- Reading Fictional Languages
- Author
- Israel A. C. Noletto, Jessica Norledge, Peter Stockwell, David J. Peterson, Jessie Sams, Benjamin Johnson, Anthony Gutierrez, Nicolas Matias Campi, Harry Cook, Victor Fernandes Andrade, Sebastiao Alves Teixeira Lopes, Bettina Beinhoff, Christine Mooshammer, Dominique Bobeck, Henrik Hornecker, Kieran Meinhardt, Olga Olina, Marie Christin Walch, Qiang Xia, James K. Tauber, Katie Wales, Rebecca Gregory, and Kimberley Pager-McClymont.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1399529145
- ISBN 13
- 9781399529143
Reading Fictional Languages brings together scholars, creators, designers and speakers of fictional languages from across the world in a unique book that explores the imagined languages of fantasy, science fiction, dystopia and alternate realities. It explores the role of invented languages in world-building, characterisation, and the feeling of authentic immersion in the forms of thought of aliens, animals, machines, and the people who inhabit alternative worlds from our own.
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About the Author
Israel A.C. Noletto is Professor of English Language and Literature at the Federal Institute of Piauí (IFPI), Brazil. He holds a PhD in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Piauí and has been a CAPES fellow at the University of Nottingham. He is interested in literary stylistics, narrative theory and fictional languages in science fiction as a literary phenomenon and has authored several scholarly articles on glossopoesis in writers ranging from George Orwell to Ted Chiang, Jonathan Swift to Anthony Burgess, Thomas More to Suzette Haden Elgin. He has co-edited Literatura, Memória e Cultura (2021), and Ensaios sobre teoria e crítica literária (Essays on Literary Theory and Criticism) (2020), a collection of papers on literary criticism by scholars from Brazil, Nigeria and Nepal.
Jessica Norledge is Assistant Professor in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham. Her research sits at the interface between English literature and English language, in stylistics and narratology. Jess has a particular interest in the style of dystopian literature and the experience of reading dystopian narratives, ranging from early utopian works through to 21st-century literary practice. She has published on the cognitive poetics of emotion, dystopian epistolary, unnatural and non-human minds, and worlds theories in dystopian fiction. Her books include The Language of Dystopia (2022), and the co-authored Digital Teaching for Linguistics (2022).
Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, and a Fellow of the English Association. He has published 20 books and 100 articles in stylistics, sociolinguistics, science fiction and applied linguistics, including Cognitive Poetics (2020), The Language of Surrealism (2017), Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and The Poetics of Science Fiction (2000). He co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics (2014), The Language and Literature Reader (2008), Contemporary Stylistics (2007) and Impossibility Fiction (1996). His work in cognitive poetics has been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Persian, Russian and Arabic.
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