tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 24 11:49:19 2006
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Re: The Linguist article
I wrote:
>Although not interested in writing the article myself, there are other such
>articles available online should you wish to review them:
I found two more articles and two more M.A. theses:
"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>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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3658310.stm
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>/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>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."
Anyone know of any others? Surely there must be a few in the linguistics
scholarly journals!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons