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Analysis of future English-based created languages : A study of word-formation processes in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas

Vigneron, Mélanie
(2020)

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Supervisors
Gilquin, Gaëtanelle
Faculty
Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres
Degree label
Master [120] en langues et lettres modernes, orientation germaniques
Abstract
The central objective of this master’s thesis is to explore the use of word-formation processes across four short stories present in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, namely “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, “An Orison of Sonmi~451” and “Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After”. While the first two are written in natural present-day English, the last two are set in the future and for this reason two English-based created languages have been invented. The innovative character of this study lies in its comparative dimension. An analysis of the presence and the use of morphological techniques regarding nominal instances was carried out on data from the four short stories in order to identify the similarities and differences between these different texts in terms of involvement of morphological processes in the two created languages and present-day English, quantity of (non-)existing instances in natural present-day English and sociolinguistic factors. While the quantitative and quantitative analyses reveal some differences across the four texts under study, these same analyses also show some similarities between the two created languages and natural present-day English.