Reading Fictional Languages

Provides a guide for creating, exploring, and understanding fictional, imaginary, and invented languages

• Brings together many of the key creators, designers and researchers of imagined languages in literature, TV and cinema
• Features the languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth, Star Trek, Avatar, Game of Thrones, Dune, and SpEEC, Lapin, Láadan, Marain, Speedtalk, Heptapod B, and many others including a language invented exclusively for this book
• Serves as both a handbook and guide to the creation, design principles, exploration, analysis and experience of reading fictional languages

Reading Fictional Languages brings together scholars, creators, designers and speakers of fictional languages from across the world in a unique book that explores the imagined languages of fantasy, science fiction, dystopia and alternate realities. It explores the role of invented languages in world-building, characterisation, and the feeling of authentic immersion in the forms of thought of aliens, animals, machines, and the people who inhabit alternative worlds from our own.