Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. 1 Introduction: reading fictional languages 1
6. Part I Design
7. 2 Conlanging with non-conlangers: the art of language invention in television and media 15
8. 3 On the inner workings of language creation: using conlangs to drive reader engagement in fictional worlds 32
9. 4 Dialects in constructed languages 47
10. 5 Alien typographies in sf and the influence of Asian languages 63
11. 6 Design intentions and actual perception of fictional languages: Quenya, Sindarin, and Na’vi 76
12. 7 The phonaesthetics of constructed languages: results from an online rating experiment 93
13. Part II Interpretation
14. 8 Tolkien’s use of invented languages in The Lord of the Rings 113
15. 9 Changing tastes: reading the cannibalese of Charles Dickens’ Holiday Romance and nineteenth-century popular culture 133
16. 10 Dialectal extrapolation as a literary experiment in Aldiss’ ‘A spot of Konfrontation’ 144
17. 11 Women, fire, and dystopian things 161
18. 12 Building the conomasticon: names and naming in fictional worlds 179
19. 13 The language of Lapine in Watership Down 195
20. 14 Unspeakable languages 213
21. Index 230