Reading Fictional Languages
By (Author) Israel Noletto
Edited by Jessica Norledge
Edited by Peter Stockwell
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press
8th December 2025
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics
Dialect, slang and jargon
809.926
Paperback
272
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Reading Fictional Languages brings together scholars, creators, designers and speakers of fictional languages from across the world in a unique book that explores the imagined languages of fantasy, science fiction, dystopia and alternate realities. It explores the role of invented languages in world-building, characterisation, and the feeling of authentic immersion in the forms of thought of aliens, animals, machines, and the people who inhabit alternative worlds from our own.