Encountering conlangs

February 2017 article in Babel Magazine
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Encountering conlangs

Summary

Encountering conlangs is a magazine article[1].

Key Facts

  • Encountering conlangs authored Deak Kirkham[2].
  • Encountering conlangs's instance of is recorded as magazine article[3].
  • Encountering conlangs's page is recorded as 10-15[4].
  • Encountering conlangs's part of is recorded as Babel February 2017[5].
  • Encountering conlangs's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • Encountering conlangs's language of work or name is recorded as Klingon[7].
  • Encountering conlangs's language of work or name is recorded as Basque[8].
  • Encountering conlangs's language of work or name is recorded as Láadan[9].
  • Encountering conlangs's language of work or name is recorded as Esperanto[10].
  • Encountering conlangs's language of work or name is recorded as Lojban[11].
  • Encountering conlangs's publication date is recorded as +2017-02-00T00:00:00Z[12].
  • Encountering conlangs's main subject is recorded as constructed language[13].
  • Encountering conlangs's work available at URL is recorded as https://babelzine.co.uk/images/ArticlePDFs/No18%20Article%20-%20Encountering%20conlangs.pdf[14].
  • Encountering conlangs's published in is recorded as Babel[15].
  • Encountering conlangs's title is recorded as Encountering conlangs[16].
  • Encountering conlangs's subtitle is recorded as Deak Kirkham investigates the intriguing phenomenon of constructed languages.[17].
  • Encountering conlangs's first line is recorded as Here’s a linguistic brain-teaser: which of the following language extracts is the odd one out?[18].
  • Encountering conlangs's last line is recorded as Long live the conlangs![19].
  • Encountering conlangs's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[20].
  • Encountering conlangs's quotation or excerpt is recorded as In addition to phonaesthetic concerns, Láadan, for example,includes sets of sentence-initial particles which encode pragmatic functions such as whether an utterance is a question, warning or promise, and the evidential strength of the utterance from the speaker’s perspective. The grammaticalisation of such discourse functions provides another example of conlangs as test cases: how much pragmatics can be put into a language? Conlangs are replete with such intriguing grammatical features,making them in effect living linguistic laboratories that allow us to test many language science hypotheses.[21].

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Geography

Encountering conlangs's part of is recorded as Babel February 2017[5].

Designation and Status

Encountering conlangs's instance of is recorded as magazine article[3].

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