From Elvish to Klingon
Subtitle: exploring invented languages
By: Michael Adams
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; tlh
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780192807090
Subjects: Artificial Languages
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The spectrum of invention / Michael Adams; title: Confounding Babel: international auxiliary languages / Arden R. Smith; title: Invented vocabularies: the cases of Newspeak and Nadsat / Howard Jackson; title: Tolkien's invented languages / E. S. C. Weiner and Jeremy Marshall; title: 'Wild and whirling words': the invention and use of klingon / Marc Okrand, Michael Adams, Judith Hendricks-Hermans, and Sjaak Kroon; title: Gaming languages and language games / James Portnow; title: 'Oirish' inventions: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Paul Muldoon / Stephen Watt; title: Revitalized languages as invented languages / Suzanne Romaine.