The Palgrave Handbook of Constructed Languages

This handbook represents the first structured, academic overview of constructed languages, including not only well-known examples like Esperanto and Klingon, but also those created for educational, philosophical, and communication purposes. Divided into parts covering engineered languages, auxiliary languages, artistic languages, constructed languages in education, and constructed languages in psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research, the volume brings together experts and leading scholars from a wide array of fields to provide an in-depth overview of this dynamic and growing field.

Constructed languages are becoming increasingly popular, and the development of the internet has allowed people across the world to share their ideas and meet in like-minded online forums. This handbook will therefore be of interest not only to Linguists, Educationalists, and Film, Media, and Literature specialists, but also constructed language creators and enthusiasts.

Joseph W. Windsor is a Knowledge Translator in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has created more than a dozen constructed languages professionally, has published on the L2 acquisition of Klingon stress, has organised four international Language Creation Conferences, and is a Past President of the international not-for-profit Language Creation Society.

Alison Long is a Lecturer in Languages at Keele University, UK. She created the Illitan language for the BBC’s adaptation of China Mieville’s The City and the City, acted as a language consultant for Sky’s Intergalactic, and is currently working on two further languages for a production company in Los Angeles.