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Copyright

Katrin Kohl

Published On

2020-05-20

Page Range

pp. 223-248

Print Length

25 pages

10. Creating Languages

Chapter of: Creative Multilingualism: A Manifesto(pp. 223–248)
Chapter 10 sets out on a journey of discovery, homing in on some key questions concerning the interplay between creativity and languages, finding out what motivates language inventors to create an artificial language such as Esperanto and equip mythical folk such as Elves and the Dothraki with distinctive languages. It further considers the extraordinary linguistic inventiveness that allows us to create and appreciate language play, such as puns.