In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language - By Arika Okrent

While it is not a scholarly work, Arika Okrent's In the Land of Invented Languages recommends itself to linguistic anthropologists on a variety of counts. An intellectual picaresque describing the author's historical and ethnographic forays into the imaginative worlds of language inventors...

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Main Author: Jones, Graham M. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013-11-07T15:30:49Z.
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