1st Edition
Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature Stylistic Explorations
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of texts
List of figures
Chapter 1 – Fictional languages as stylistic and narrative devices
Chapter 2 – A speculative function: philosophical languages
Chapter 3 – A rhetorical function: dialectal extrapolations
Chapter 4 – A descriptive function: world-building languages
Chapter 5 – A diegetic function: superlanguages and antilanguages
Chapter 6 – A paratextual function: different textualities
Chapter 7 – Multifunctional readings
References
Index
Biography
Israel A. C. Noletto is Professor of English Language and Literature at the Federal Institute of Piauí (IFPI), Brazil, and a conlanger. He is interested in literary stylistics and fictional languages in science fiction as a literary phenomenon and has published several articles on glossopoesis in writers ranging from George Orwell to Ted Chiang, Jonathan Swift to Anthony Burgess, Thomas More to Ursula K. Le Guin. He co-edited the book Reading Fictional Languages (2023), a collection of papers in glossopoesis by scholars in stylistics and professional language inventors from the UK, mainland Europe, USA, and Brazil.
