blog entry #8

In an attempt to focus more on the linguistic side of conlangs, I have gathered more linguistic-driven sources for this entry. These will most definitely support my claim that the use of conlangs help create a more immersive world for the audience to submerge themselves in.

As for introductions and conclusions, which we saw in class, I am not worried. I have rarely ever had any trouble with introductions or conclusions while writing essays in the past. I tend to think it is one of the simplest and most fun parts of an essay to write, as it often signifies the essay is finished and is a nice way to tie everything together one last time before handing the work in. I definitely enjoy writing them, so I doubt I'll have any issue.

Destruel, Matt. “Reality in Fantasy: linguistic analysis of fictional languages.” Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107144.

This paper offers a more linguistics-driven approach to some of the main fictional languages, providing an analysis using Greenberg's Linguistic Universals, which I will also use and cite. This will be useful to me in showing how fictional languages are just as linguistically-relevant as natural languages.

Greenberg, Joseph H. Language Universals : With Special Reference to Feature Hierarchies. De Gruyter Mouton, 2005. EBSCOhost, https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,url,uid&db=e000xna&AN=558078&site=eds-live&scope=site.

This book proposes many different characteristics which can be observed among most if not all languages, making them universals and useful tools to accurately qualify languages. This source will be used in relation to the pervious one.