"New Media Linguistics" by David Peterson from Game of Thrones
0:00 = Mary Ann Mavrinac Introduction
3:03 = Sarah Higley Introduction
6:58 = David Peterson Lecture
54:24 = Q&A
April 13, 2016, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library
University of Rochester
Social media has opened up a once solitary creative pursuit-personal language invention-to other inventors, but David J. Peterson has made it his profession. In addition to creating "Dothraki" and "High Valyrian" for the popular TV series Game of Thrones®, he has designed languages for Defiance, The Shannara Chronicles, The 100, and Emerald City. In his lecture, "New Media Linguistics: Developing Languages for Game of Thrones," Peterson will provide a rare glimpse into the fascinating process of language creation for fictional purposes, and will review the cultural, historical, linguistic, and aesthetic aspects that are involved in it.
With degrees in linguistics from Berkeley and UC San Diego, Peterson has closely studied the structures of languages world-wide and offers information and advice about creating naturalistic languages as an artform. His 2014 book Living Language Dothraki teaches fans how to speak this nomadic tongue, and in The Art of Language Invention (2015) he offers a rigorous manual of linguistic principles for would-be "conlangers.”
Sponsored by the Humanities Project along with the Neilly Lecture Series, River Campus Libraries, and the Sara Nainzadeh Fund.
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I just watched Peterson's Google talk where he mentions how much he looks up to Sarah and how he wanted to meet her someday, and I'm so happy for him that she introduced him here!
@ghostwriter991
Жыл бұрын
Sarah who can you kindly tell me her surname so i can google her
He's so good he created the word embarrassable by accident.
@TheAsyouwysh
7 жыл бұрын
"I didn't misspeak. I'm speaking my a posterior conlang E-Speak. It's based on English except embarrassable is a highly prestigious word and a posterior is considered the standard way to say that Latin phrase."
In my conlang in progress, I have a polysyllabic morphology with substantial agglutination, which renders rhyming poetry difficult. I decided that it would probably develop a poetry focusing on alliteration.
@RexXXXXXXXXL
7 жыл бұрын
Wow! That sounds interesting! do you have an example?
@qwertyTRiG
4 жыл бұрын
Biblical Hebrew does that.
Outstanding! A wonderful event, and so skillfully edited by Will Graver and his team! Thank you, David Peterson and everyone else involved!
On the question of whether speakers of Dothrako or Valeryan would resist change, the conservative tendency of Esperanto speakers suggests that Peterson is right. Zamenhof had no proprietary concerns with Esperanto.
American: lets change the name of our language to American British people: ಠ_ಠ
@morthim
3 жыл бұрын
*Irish people: :D
Megdevi is a wonderful language
The hardest thing is escaping conventional ideas and rules
@ghostwriter991
Жыл бұрын
Why you say this because i feel like conventional ideas and rules are like templates and exemplars to build upon like a scaffold
I work in the industry and unfortunately it is very true. The only thing producers care about is making and saving money. They don't care for the art of any of it. They tend to get credit for stuff but in reality they do nothing artistically. A lot of the people behind the cool stuff in movies and TV shows are the people behind the scenes who are barely talked about. Producers just show up later and act like they contributed to stuff, when in reality we just gaslight them into thinking they are able to make artistic decisions that we actually pre-made so they feel like they did something.
my problem with language creation is that I really want to make a conlang, but I lack inspiration.
@keegster7167
6 жыл бұрын
Huh. This comment was written a year, just when I started conlanging. You just have to do it. Look at other people's conlangs perhaps. I always get inspiration from real life langauges. I then think of ideas on how I would change those languages, (which does not necessarily mean more logical either).
@holdenturner8190
5 жыл бұрын
I'm very sorry
Turn down your audio before watching
57:30 rip mic
Why did he omit Thomas More’s Utopian?
7:00
@gosnooky
6 жыл бұрын
shmoobalizer Thank you.
@narayana8249
5 жыл бұрын
shmoobalizer thank you
Why would anyone want to create such a complicated conlang? Hmmm🤔
@keegster7167
6 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone do art? Hmmm.
@markusklyver6277
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, why create art? Bullshit concept no one cares abou... wait.