34.3046, Sum: Discipline of Linguistics in Fiction

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Subject: 34.3046, Sum: Discipline of Linguistics in Fiction

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Date: 11-Aug-2023
From: Lieselotte Anderwald [anderwald at anglistik.uni-kiel.de]
Subject: Discipline of Linguistics in Fiction


Many thanks to everyone who responded with suggestions about fiction
involving linguistics!

Mary Ann Walter has done the work for everyone (English language
only): https://sites.google.com/view/maryannwalter/ling-in-lit. She
also suggests the allthingslinguistic blog:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wHWbzLU9Est9DUGyI8GorcufoxvSyZuK1L
bHTOFRoXg/edit (from page 3 there are recommendations for fiction.)

Thanks also go to Catrin Bellay, Hanno Beck, Andrés Carvajal, Tom
Ernst, Larry Horn, Christian Koch, Leena Kolehmainen, Simone Löhndorf,
Felicitas Otte, Ruyu, Geoff Sampson, and Gohar Schnelle for their
suggestions, which I summarize below – please note that not everything
is in English, and there is some overlap with Mary Ann's collection.
(Non-fiction)
Simon Winchester: The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness
and the Love of Words (US edition The Professor and the Madman, rather
non-fiction)
Simon Winchester: The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford
English Dictionary (also non-fiction)
Novels
Laurent Binet: La Septième Fonction du langage. (includes Roman
Jakobson).
Wolf Haas: Verteidigung der Missionarsstellung. (introduction to
linguistics)
Pascal Mercier: Perlmanns Schweigen. (protagonist is a linguist)
David Lodge's campus novels (some include characters inspired by his
Birmingham colleagues)
David Lodge 2008: Deaf Sentence (main character is a linguist)
Peter Bieri: Nachtzug nach Lissabon (features a classical philologist
and lexical etymologies)
David Carkeet: Double Negative (include references to Linguistic
Inquiry , and a linguist protagonist, Jeremy Cook)
David Carkeet: The Full Catastrophe (linguist as marriage therapist)
Suzette Haden Elgin: (linguistics + science fiction)
Mary Doria Russell: The Sparrow (including portrayal of linguistic
fieldwork)
Audrey Magee The colony (young linguist in Ireland)
R.F. Kuang Babel (promising start, goes downhill)
Alexander McCall Smith Portuguese Irregular Verbs (and sequels)

Short Stories
Ted Chiang 'Story of Your Life' (basis for the film "Arrival")

Translation Studies
special issue ed. by Dirk Delabastita and Rainier Grutman (2005):
https://lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/issue/view/9
Klaus Kaindl in “Handbook of Translation Studies Online”: chapter on
the fictional representation of translators and interpreters:
https://benjamins.com/online/hts/articles/rep1
Xiaolu Guo (a Chinese-British writer) I am China (2014) (includes a
translator's working process)
Xiaolu Guo A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007)
(plays with form of dictionary)
Xiaolu Guo A Lover's Discourse (2020)

Films
My Fair Lady (1964)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058385/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_My
%2520Fair%2520Lady%2520(1964)
Camouflage (1977) [Original title: Barwy ochronne]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075730/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_Ca
mouflage%2520(1977)

On Top of the Whale (1982) [Original title: Het dak van de walvis]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083783/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_q_On
%2520Top%2520of%2520the%2520Whale%2520(1982)

Stargate (1994)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_St
argate%2520(1994)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230011/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

The Interpreter (2005)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt037
Still Alice (2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3316960/

Arrival (2016)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2543164/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_7_nm_0_q_ar
riv

The Professor and the Madman (2019)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5932728/

TV shows

'Manhunt: Unabomber' (TV show) (forensic linguist, non-fiction)

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature

Subject Language(s): Daantanai' (lni)

Language Family(ies): !Kwi



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