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Re: Yaguello

From:Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 5, 1999, 8:01
Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > But there's not much literature on invented languages, and in the land > of the beheaded she was the blind king, when she wrote the book in > 1984. I'd really like a good book on artificial languages that > concentrates on languages made for art, with a foreword by some > recognized conlanger (is professor Barker still alive?), a chapter > on various kinds of invented languages (auxlang, artlang, personal > languages, languages in fiction, ritual languages), a couple of case > studies, discussion of the status of languages as art form, development > of conlanging and its artistic direction, survey of resources. Or a > book on the process of designing languages, what gets designed first, > why and how - comparison between artlang development and pidgin > development, of course complete with case studies and survey of > existing artlangs. Enough material for a whole scholarly discipline! >
Isn't there a discipline called "interlinguistics"? Or is it focussed on IALs?
> Boudewijn Rempt | http://denden.conlang.org/~bsarempt
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