Introduction to the special issue on “The language of science fiction”

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Rüdiger, Sofia ; Lange, Claudia:
Introduction to the special issue on “The language of science fiction”.
In: Linguistics Vanguard. Bd. 9 (2023) Heft s3 . - S. 229-232.
ISSN 2199-174X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0031

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Abstract

In this introduction, we provide a short rationale for the genesis of the special issue on “The language of science fiction” and introduce its main theme – science fiction, with particular consideration of the language of estrangement – and main methodological framework – corpus linguistics. In addition, we give an overview of the contributions and motivate their grouping into four parts: (1) the influence of science fiction on non-fictional language, (2) sociolinguistic variation, (3) science fiction and the mind, and (4) lexis and literature.