From Elvish to Klingon : exploring invented languages /
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...
| Основен автор: | Adams, Michael, 1961- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Съдържание:
- 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.