Imaginary languages Myths, utopias, fantasies, illusions, and linguistic fictions
Book - 2022
"Trade book on the history of imaginary languages by a French linguist who was one of the first to write on the topic and to popularize linguistics for a general and literary audience"--
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- Published
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press
[2022]
- Language
- English
French - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- xxii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780262046398
- Preface
- Foreword: The Love of Language
- Part I. From Myth to Utopia
- 1. From Austral to Astral Voyages: Foundational Myths
- 2. The Dreamer Dreaming: Profiles in Logophilla
- 3. The Dream of the Dreamer's Rib: Female Bodies, Male Science
- Part II. In the Course of Time (The Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century)
- 4. The Unfinished Quest: The Search for an Ideal Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 5. Science Against Fiction: The March Toward Positive Fact
- 6. Utopia in Action: The Ascent of International Auxiliary Languages
- 7. Myth at the Heart of Science: Modern Linguistic Theories as Reflected in Science Fiction
- Part III. Two Poles of Linguistic Fantasy
- 8. The Emperor's New Clothes: The Case of Nikolai Marr
- 9. The Queen of the Night: Language and the Unconscious-Spiritualist and Religious Glossolalia
- Part IV. The Defense and Illustration of Natural Languages
- 10. Sleeping Beauty at Rest: Artificial Languages, Prisons of the Mind
- 11. Opposing Forces
- Appendix 1. Synoptic Table
- Appendix 2. Selected Texts
- Notes
- Bibliography