linguistic SF
Mark A. Mandel
mamandel at LDC.UPENN.EDU
Tue Sep 28 22:09:36 UTC 2004
Arnold inquit:
somewhere there's an annotated bibiography of sf stories/books in which
language issues and/or linguists figure prominently.
We wantssssss it, preciousssssssss!
from my PDA, a recommendation from a friend:
Hellspark, Janet Kagan. copyright 1988; 1998 Meisha Merlin trade-paperback
edition. "If you haven't read it, I think you'd get a kick out of it. It's
set in a Galactic society where there are many cultures and they don't
understand each other well. It's partly about the definition of sapience
and partly linguistic SF about the importance of non-verbal cues. -- I liked
it."
I read it. I loved it.
-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]
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