A GENERAL CONVERSATION ON CONLANGS
A GENERAL CONVERSATION ON CONLANGS
Author(s): Ștefan GhiranSubject(s): Social Philosophy, Lexis, Semantics, Historical Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Scientific Life
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: linguistics; conlang; conworlds; natlang; creativity;
Summary/Abstract: Constructed languages seem to be what J.R.R. Tolkien names “A Secret Vice” of humanity and have been with us in one form of another for a long time. At the hight of the 19th century the fascination was with finding a universal language, but today they seem to be more prominent due to the media promoting them and at the same time they go unnoticed. Many language creators applied their craft to enrich fictional worlds, their own or otherwise, and in doing so managed to transform this “vice” into an artform where the prefix “art” in “artlang” stands for artistic, no longer for artificial. This article aims to present the history of artificial languages, some of the characteristics that might make such a language successful and attempts to follow the shift from understanding and using language creation as a tool in its previous stages to the artform it is today by combining elements of general linguistics with examples from various crafted languages.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2024
- Issue No: 38
- Page Range: 752-759
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English
