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SFF Linguistics
“Oh, Frak” — Avoiding the Censors the SFF Way
“Evil Earth”: Linguistic Worldbuilding in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy
“Mind records are the one true forever”: Translation and Dead Languages in Marie Brennan’s Turning Darkness Into Light
A Prank on the Emperor? Names and Vocabulary in The Goblin Emperor
“Such a relief, to have a language with the right words”: Native Tongue and Women’s Language
Expressing Culture Through Language in A Memory Called Empire
Lang Belta: The Language of The Expanse
Predators, Prey, Honor: Linguistic Worldbuilding in C.J. Cherryh’s Hunter of Worlds
Language, Warfare, and the Brain as Computer: Babel-17
The Signifier and the Signified: Semiotics and China Miéville’s Embassytown
When Speech Is an Assault: Linguistics and First Contact in Peter Watts’ Blindsight
“Law and order were nothing—not even words any longer”: Types of Aphasia and Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”
Linguistics in Arrival: Heptapods, Whiteboards, and Nonlinear Time
Good Fiction, Questionable Science: The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
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