Constructed Languages

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ID2295360
AutoresChristine Schreyer (0000-0001-8062-059X, Department of Community, Culture, and Global Studies; University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia V1V 1V7, Canada, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume50
Fascículo1
Páginas327-344
Data de publicação2021-10-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
EditoraAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-anthro-101819-110152
OpenAlexW4206630893
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas70

Constructed languages, also known as conlangs, are languages that have been purposefully created for either real-world or fictional speakers. Within this article, I provide a summary of the language creation process and how the community of conlangers, people who make languages, come to know each other's work, as well as how language creation assignments are being adopted within university classrooms. I also explore the role of the language creator in bringing a community of speakers into existence through the invention of a language. I discuss whether speakers of a constructed language are part of a community of practice or a speech community and the implications for this distinction within anthropology. I also describe conscripts, or constructed orthographies, as well as the relationship between endangered languages and constructed languages, how invented worlds can create real-world shifts in worldview, and suggestions for new directions in research linking anthropology and constructed languages

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