Dear all,<\/p>\n
during the yesterday\u2019s lecture, I noticed a discussion in the chat about the interconnectedness of language, truth, and “real”-world reference. If you want to read a great novel about these issues (and more!), I really recommend China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s Embassytown<\/em><\/a> (Locus Award, 2012).\u00a0\u00a0This is of course not an academic publication, but Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s done his homework and the book is generally worth your time…<\/p>\n Best wishes,<\/p>\n Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear all, during the yesterday\u2019s lecture, I noticed a discussion in the chat about the interconnectedness of language, truth, and “real”-world reference. If you want to read a great novel about these issues (and more!), I really recommend China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s Embassytown (Locus Award, 2012).\u00a0\u00a0This is of course not an academic publication, but Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s done his … Continue reading “Linguistics in fiction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[359924,1833],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-w20_17309","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fu-berlin.de\/linguistics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}