Reading Fictional Languages (19 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Provides a guide for creating, exploring, and understanding fictional, imaginary, and invented languages Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. 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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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Provides a guide for creating, exploring, and understanding fictional, imaginary, and invented languages Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: New. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.63 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Provides a guide for creating, exploring, and understanding fictional, imaginary, and invented languages This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…