Reading Fictional Languages

Israel Noletto (editor), Jessica Norledge (editor), Peter Stockwell (editor)

Paperback (31 Aug 2025)

$32.76

Pre-order

Includes delivery to the United States

Other formats & editions

New: Hardback (31 Dec 2023) ~~RRP $117.98~~ $93.08

Publisher's Synopsis

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.

About the Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. The Press is a global ambassador for the University of Edinburgh, distributing our books and journals worldwide each year. Our publications carry the imprimatur of one of Britain's oldest and most distinguished centres of learning and enjoy the highest academic standards through the scholarly appraisal of the Press Committee. Scotland has a long tradition of furthering learning and intellectual debate and promoting awareness of new ideas. Edinburgh University Press is part of that heritage. As well as being a leading UK academic publisher we aim to be the pre-eminent publisher of serious books about Scotland.

ISBN:	9781399529150
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:	31 Aug 2025
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	-1g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm