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Reading Fictional Languages

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Reading Fictional Languages brings together scholars, creators, designers and speakers of fictional languages from across the world in a unique book that explores the imagined languages of fantasy, science fiction, dystopia and alternate realities. It explores the role of invented languages in world-building, characterisation, and the feeling of authentic immersion in the forms of thought of aliens, animals, machines, and the people who inhabit alternative worlds from our own.

Author Biography:

Israel A.C. Noletto is Professor of English Language and Literature at the Federal Institute of Piau� (IFPI), Brazil. He holds a PhD in Language and Literature from the Federal University of Piau� and has been a CAPES fellow at the University of Nottingham. He is interested in literary stylistics, narrative theory and fictional languages in science fiction as a literary phenomenon and has authored several scholarly articles on glossopoesis in writers ranging from George Orwell to Ted Chiang, Jonathan Swift to Anthony Burgess, Thomas More to Suzette Haden Elgin. He has co-edited Literatura, Mem�ria e Cultura (2021), and Ensaios sobre teoria e cr�tica liter�ria (Essays on Literary Theory and Criticism) (2020), a collection of papers on literary criticism by scholars from Brazil, Nigeria and Nepal. Jessica Norledge is Assistant Professor in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham. Her research sits at the interface between English literature and English language, in stylistics and narratology. Jess has a particular interest in the style of dystopian literature and the experience of reading dystopian narratives, ranging from early utopian works through to 21st-century literary practice. She has published on the cognitive poetics of emotion, dystopian epistolary, unnatural and non-human minds, and worlds theories in dystopian fiction. Her books include The Language of Dystopia (2022), and the co-authored Digital Teaching for Linguistics (2022). Peter Stockwell is Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, and a Fellow of the English Association. He has published 20 books and 100 articles in stylistics, sociolinguistics, science fiction and applied linguistics, including Cognitive Poetics (2020), The Language of Surrealism (2017), Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading (Edinburgh University Press, 2009), and The Poetics of Science Fiction (2000). He co-edited The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics (2014), The Language and Literature Reader (2008), Contemporary Stylistics (2007) and Impossibility Fiction (1996). His work in cognitive poetics has been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Persian, Russian and Arabic.
Release date Australia
December 31st, 2023
Contributors
  • Edited by Israel Noletto
  • Edited by Jessica Norledge
  • Edited by Peter Stockwell
Pages
272
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
26 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
156x234x16
ISBN-13
9781399529143
Product ID
38433129

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