tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 29 07:21:55 2006
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Re: linguistic project help
Here'a a request posted to the Klingon_Language group at Yahoogroups over
the weekend. If interested, email Alicia ([email protected]) for a copy
of her questionnaire. I've also included my response in case anyone wants
to add to my list of references and share with the collective.
At 11:11 AM Monday 11/27/2006, Voragh wrote:
>On 11/26/2006, Alicia Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
>'ello...
> I am sorry; I am not a Klingon speaker, and I am sorry if this
>considered spam. I am a student at UCBerkeley and am working on a
>linguistics project dealing with "fantasy" languages and their
>real-life speakers. I was wondering if anyone would be willing to
>answer a few questions in a email "interview" of sorts.
>
> > FYI: There have been other similar research projects in the past on
> > Klingon and the Klingonist community. Let me point you to a few online
> > papers I've collected over the years you should be aware of. I can't
> > guarantee all of these URLs are still good, but you might be able to find
> > other copies posted elsewhere on the web:
> >
> >
> > "A survey of the artificial language tlhIngan Hol: from creation to
> > creativity" by Teresa Lynn Wells. Thesis (M.A.)--Arizona State
> > University, 1996.
> > /ftppub/Text/Misc/TERESA.TXT
> >
> > "Klingon and its users: a sociolinguistic profile" by Judith
> > Hermans. Thesis (M.A.)Language and Culture Studies, Tilburg University,
> > 1999.
> > http://www.geocities.com/judith_hh/scripdef.htm
> > Abstract:
> > Fundamental issues in nationalism theory resurface in a discussion of
> > Klingon users: is national identity essential and quasi-genetic, or
> > voluntary political choice? "Klingon is an artificial language,
> > originally created for fiction. This means that is was not designed for
> > real use. The strange thing is that, although it was not constructed for
> > real communication, people began to use it for communication. This makes
> > Klingon a very special artificial language. ... How could it happen that
> > so many people as a way of communication picked up a language that was
> > not meant to be used for communication? ... Language is maybe the best
> > group marker there is. There are more markers, like clothing or the mark
> > of your car or attributes, but language is the best because an individual
> > can influence it himself."
> >
> > "{Hol Sup 'oH tlhIngan Hol'e' - wa'maH Hut tlhIngan Hol po'wI'
> > nughQeD} (Klingon as Linguistic Capital: A Sociologic Study of
> > Nineteen Advanced Klingonists)" by Yens Wahlgren (B.A. thesis, Lunds
> > Universitet, 2004)
> > http://www.socbetbib.lu.se/epubl/sochtm/SOC04014.htm
> > http://theses.lub.lu.se/archive/sob//soc/soc04014/SOC04014.pdf
> > http://www.angelfire.com/trek/yensw/PDF/thesis.pdf
> > Abstract:
> > The Klingon language was created as a "verbal movie-prop" for
> > Star Trek and was not supposed to be a language for human communication.
> > But today thousands of persons have studied Klingon and 20-30 persons
> > can be considered fluent in the language. A linguistic field of power, a
> > linguistic market, has been formed. The purpose of this thesis is to
> > research how the Klingon language speakers have experienced the
> > development of the artificial language Klingon during its 20 years of
> > existence. I will also examine the informants' opinion towards Star Trek
> > fandom. The method used is qualitative; I have interviewed Dr Marc
> > Okrand, creator of the Klingon language, and Dr Lawrence M. Schoen,
> > founder of the Klingon Language Institute (KLI). I have also conducted an
> > Internet interview with 17 advanced Klingonists. As a theoretical
> > framework I use Bourdieu's theory on symbolic capital, Berger's and
> > Luckmann's discussion on secondary socialization and Ferguson categories
> > of Language development. For Klingon the process of language development
> > is a social process. It is an ongoing dialectic exchange between Marc
> > Okrand and the Klingonists. The KLI acts as a socializing institution and
> > plays an important role for the standardization of the language together
> > with Klingonists with high linguistic capital. Star Trek is becoming less
> > important for the development of Klingon as only a minority of the
> > Klingonists consider themselves as trekkers and by the modernization of
> > Klingon that gives the language more vocabulary not related to Star Trek
> > concepts.
> >
> > "A Brief History of Klingon" by Dr. Lawrence Schoen:
> > http://www.morgenwelt.de/futureframe/000131-klingon.htm
> > http://tinyurl.com/45oop
> >
> > "The Klingon Language" by Hoovooloo (?)
> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A744860
> >
> > "Definition of Klingon language" (a nice introduction to the
> > language)
> > http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Klingon_language
> >
> > Wikipedia's brief description of the Klingons is at:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon
> > and the Klingon language:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language
> >
> > "Klingon and Esperanto: The Odd Couple" by Glen Proechel
> > http://donh.best.vwh.net/Languages/klingon.html
> > [A short article first published in 1994 in "Esperanto U.S.A."]
> >
> > "Lingüística klingon: Opacidad y Transparencia" by Nicolau
> > Rodrigues [in Spanish]
> > http://hiperespacio.dreamers.com/Artics/klingon/klingon.htm
> > "This article talks about a very simple linguistic fact that tend
> > to be undervalued: a language may show a meaning with a suffix or
> > construction while in other language that meaning is understood by
> > context. In this case, I regard plurality."
> >
> > "Klingon caribeño, ¿Quién dijo que la filología no puede ser
> > divertida?" by Nicolau Rodrigues [in Spanish]
> > http://hiperespacio.dreamers.com/Artics/klingoncaribe/klingoncaribe.htm
> > "Trying to show that Klingon language may be funny too, here I talk
> > about etymology, word plays, and a Caribbean tale (from an OVS language)
> > whose characters use the verb {paw'}."
> >
> > "Is Klingon an Ohlonean language? A comparison of Mutsun and
> > Klingon" by Dick Grune (April 19, 1996)
> > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/Summaries/Languages/MutsunKlingonComparison.pdf
> >
> > "German radio starts Klingon service" (BBC article on Deutsche
> > Welle's Klingon language service:
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3658310.stm
> >
> >
> > I'm sure there are more in the linguistics literature. A good resource
> > is Dr Lawrence M. Schoen, the director of the Klingon Language Institute
> > (www.kli.org) who is a professor of linguistics himself, specializing in
> > psycholinguistics IIRC. I believe his email is [email protected] and his
> > blog, where he's known as "klingonguy", is at
> > http://www.livejournal.com/users/klingonguy/ where there may be an email
> > link.
> >
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons