Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

by Marina Yaguello

Book Overview

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics.

In Imaginary Languages, Marina Yaguello explores the history and practice of inventing languages, from religious speaking in tongues to politically utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern linguistics. She looks for imagined languages that are autonomous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262547155
• ISBN13: 9780262547154
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.7" x 7.6"