Artlang and Idioms: Idiolang

Azra Hodžić-Čavkić

Abstract


The premise of the existence of artificial languages is the intention of their creators. Given that language presupposes culture as a certain type of systematic relationship of a community to the objective world, and that idioms are translators of culture, it should be assumed that even in artificial languages we can encounter idioms as units that additionally cohere the existence of the artificial culture. Therefore, in this paper, we will talk about the artlang of Herbert's novels and it will be shown that we must speak of a special type of artlang, which in this paper we call idiolang, since idioms appear as the most common part of the Dune language. They are a result of the writer's focus on culture. Idioms serve as reliable indicators of the authentical fictional culture and signs of social coordination.

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artificial languages; artlang; natural language; idioms; culture modeling; conceptual analysis

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51558/2490-3647.2023.8.2.103

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