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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780262547154 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
499.99 |
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YAG |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Yaguello, Marina |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Imaginary languages : myths, utopias, fantasies, illusions, and linguistic fictions |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
MIT Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Cambridge : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxii, 325 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
20 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
2050 |
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INR |
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01 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Trade book on the history of imaginary languages by a French linguist who was one of the first to write on the topic and to popularize linguistics for a general and literary audience. This book 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 systems, complete unto themselves and meant for communal use; imaginary, and therefore unlike both natural languages and historically attested languages; and products of an individual effort to lay hold of language. Inventors of languages, Yaguello writes, are madly in love: they love an object that belongs to them only to the extent that they also share it with a community. Yaguello investigates the sources of imaginary languages, in myths, dreams, and utopias. She takes readers on a tour of languages invented in literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, including that in More's Utopia, Leibniz's "algebra of thought," and Bulwer-Lytton's linguistic fiction. She examines the linguistic fantasies (or madness) of Georgian linguist Nikolai Marr and Swiss medium Hélène Smith; and considers the quest for the true philosophical language. Yaguello finds two abiding (and somewhat contradictory) forces: the diversity of linguistic experience, which stands opposed to unifying endeavors, and, on the other hand, features shared by all languages (natural or not) and their users, which justifies the universalist hypothesis. |
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More's Utopia |
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Language inventions |
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Nikolai Marr |
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Glossolalia |
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Books |