{"id":9394,"date":"2018-11-23T15:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=9394"},"modified":"2018-11-28T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T16:05:04","slug":"constructed-fictional-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/11\/23\/constructed-fictional-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"ELLsoc help organise talk on constructed languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Bettina Beinhoff (Anglia Ruskin University) recently delivered a fascinating talk on the topic of constructed languages (e.g. Klingon and Dothraki). This talk was organised by CLL, ELLsoc and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/kapogianni.html\">Dr Eleni Kapogianni<\/a>, Lecturer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;To the layperson, a constructed language like Klingon might at first seem like a collection of random sounds,&#8217; writes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/hornsby.html\">Dr David Hornsby<\/a>, Head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a>, &#8216;The reality, however, is that creating a convincing fictional language requires a large amount of technical knowledge and skill, as Dr. Beinhoff\u2019s talk demonstrated.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Not only was this a successful talk, which extended to a wide audience, but the creator of the Dothraki language in <em>Game of Thrones<\/em>, David Peterson, was taught by our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/arvaniti.html\">Professor Amalia Arvaniti<\/a>, Professor of Linguistics in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a>, as postgraduate a student at the University of San Diego.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Bettina Beinhoff (Anglia Ruskin University) recently delivered a fascinating talk on the topic of constructed languages (e.g. Klingon and Dothraki). This talk was organised &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/11\/23\/constructed-fictional-languages\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":9408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135857,124],"tags":[25221],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9394"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions\/9411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}