linguistic SF

David Bowie db.list at PMPKN.NET
Wed Sep 29 13:28:20 UTC 2004


I'm not quite sure of the attribution here, since i missed the first
post--apologies if I got it wrong.

Arnold wrote:

: somewhere there's an annotated bibiography of sf stories/books in
: which language issues and/or linguists figure prominently.

Geoffrey Pullum has the essay "Some lists of things about books" in his _The
great Eskimo vocabulary hoax and other irreverent essays..._ collection
(titles from memory), which AIR included a list of SF novels involving
linguistics, along with some descriptions of them.

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