1993
DOI: 10.2307/416426
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Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary Languages and Their Inventors

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“…The question of shared understandings is an especially fraught one in the two cases that I will discuss because both, I argue, involve what could be called "invented languages." The term "invented languages" is usually reserved for things like Esperanto or Klingon, or any of the thousands of other "con langs" (constructed languages) that have been created by individuals and intentional communities over the past centuries (see Okrent 2009;Yaguello 1993 for an overview). A defining characteristic of invented languages is their seemingly unnatural contexts of birth as the products of conscious attention.…”
Section: Deceit Invention and Agencymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The question of shared understandings is an especially fraught one in the two cases that I will discuss because both, I argue, involve what could be called "invented languages." The term "invented languages" is usually reserved for things like Esperanto or Klingon, or any of the thousands of other "con langs" (constructed languages) that have been created by individuals and intentional communities over the past centuries (see Okrent 2009;Yaguello 1993 for an overview). A defining characteristic of invented languages is their seemingly unnatural contexts of birth as the products of conscious attention.…”
Section: Deceit Invention and Agencymentioning
confidence: 99%