paraicNov 26, 2022

@bookstodon @linguistics A question prompted by a post I saw: what are the best #ScienceFiction #scifi books where #languages play an important part?

There’s 1984, obviously. Even more obviously, The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance. The Imperial Radch series by Ann Leckie has some interesting language features in terms of gender identity, power and mutual intelligibility.

I’m sure there are loads more - this is ‘off the top of my head’ - what others would you recommend?

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@paraic @linguistics @bookstodon Becky Chambers does a good job with language, although her aliens and their phonologies are very human in many ways.

My socks will always match my hat.

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@bookstodon @kechpaja @linguistics yes there are some good ideas on languages there. The Galaxy, and the Ground Within probably explores that the most, based on my experience
Nov 26, 2022 at 11:38amWeb