Book review: The books that inspired Will Lamb: “NancyDorian’s Language Death prompted me topursue lingusitics” [PDF]
, 2012 Will Lamb is lecturer in Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Will talks about the books on languages, particularly Gaelic and Celtic, that tempted him away from a degree in psychology and about the folklore that has carried these ...
Lamb, Will
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A Bastard Jargon”: Language Politics and Identity in \u3cem\u3eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2016 This essay explores Junot Díaz\u27s only full-length novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, through the theoretical lens of sociolinguistics and examines the ways in which Díaz has attempted to overcome the publishing industry\u27s complicity in ...
Norman, Rachel
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'Your own goddamn idiom': Junot Díaz’s translingualism in The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao [PDF]
, 2016 Whilst Bharati Mukherjee has identified Junot Díaz as a new American immigrant writer who refuses to abandon his mother tongue and “pre-migration historical inheritance,” Toni Morrison has argued that language is “the most valuable point of entry into ...
Lauret, Maria
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Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015), ed. by Ralph C. Wood [PDF]
, 2018 Book review by Robin Anne Reid of Tolkien Among the Moderns (2015) ed.
Reid, Robin A., Dr.
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Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: JRR Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation [PDF]
, 2018 This article situates Tolkien’s “A Secret Vice” (and its accompanying notes and papers) within the cultural and intellectual milieu of the early 20th century.
Fimi, Dimitra
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Ludic linguistics: a revisited taxonomy of fictional constructed language design approach for video games [PDF]
, 2017 Linguistic research on fictional constructed language (conlang) in video game dominantly employs an approach mimetically designed for fictions and films namely a priori and a posteriori.
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The grounds of Tolkien, unmappable, unbookable [PDF]
, 2018 As Tolkien himself asserted, his creative writing processes were fundamentally linguistic. They were driven by his private invented languages, by the names in those languages, and by linguistic aesthetics.
Kendall, J
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Do some languages sound more beautiful than others? [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Anikin A, Aseyev N, Erben Johansson N.
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An invented alien language analysis [PDF]
, 2017 The purpose of this analysis was to look at the linguistic features in Klingon, Sindarin, and Na'vi and compare them to a set of linguistic universal tendencies.
Norris, Laura A.
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Computer science, linguists and languages [PDF]
, 2014 [Excerto] Prólogo: Existe uma espécie de Guerra Santa há algum tempo entre investigadores da área das ciências da computação (a que vou chamar abusivamente de informáticos) e investigadores da área das ciências da língua (a que vou chamar abusivamente de
Simões, Alberto
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