Fictional languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention).
Fictional languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention).
Israel A. C. Noletto is Professor of English Language and Literature at the Federal Institute of Piauí (IFPI), Brazil, and a conlanger. He is interested in literary stylistics and fictional languages in science fiction as a literary phenomenon and has published several articles on glossopoesis in writers ranging from George Orwell to Ted Chiang, Jonathan Swift to Anthony Burgess, Thomas More to Ursula K. Le Guin. He co-edited the book Reading Fictional Languages (2023), a collection of papers in glossopoesis by scholars in stylistics and professional language inventors from the UK, mainland Europe, USA, and Brazil.
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Contents Acknowledgements List of texts List of figures Chapter 1 - Fictional languages as stylistic and narrative devices Chapter 2 - A speculative function: philosophical languages Chapter 3 - A rhetorical function: dialectal extrapolations Chapter 4 - A descriptive function: world-building languages Chapter 5 - A diegetic function: superlanguages and antilanguages Chapter 6 - A paratextual function: different textualities Chapter 7 - Multifunctional readings References Index
Contents Acknowledgements List of texts List of figures Chapter 1 - Fictional languages as stylistic and narrative devices Chapter 2 - A speculative function: philosophical languages Chapter 3 - A rhetorical function: dialectal extrapolations Chapter 4 - A descriptive function: world-building languages Chapter 5 - A diegetic function: superlanguages and antilanguages Chapter 6 - A paratextual function: different textualities Chapter 7 - Multifunctional readings References Index
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