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Page 170
... alien " languages . 15 The old , instant translation approach to the problems of exo - linguistics , satirized by the Babel Fish in the Hitch - Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1979 ) , is being gradually replaced by " alien " signifiers ...
... alien " languages . 15 The old , instant translation approach to the problems of exo - linguistics , satirized by the Babel Fish in the Hitch - Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 1979 ) , is being gradually replaced by " alien " signifiers ...
Page 171
... alien " tongues is to be found when an invented signifier is neither gratuitous nor merely suggestive of local color but has as its signified a whole new semiotic system . Thus in Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness ( 1969 ) ...
... alien " tongues is to be found when an invented signifier is neither gratuitous nor merely suggestive of local color but has as its signified a whole new semiotic system . Thus in Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness ( 1969 ) ...
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... alien enigma named RVOG to a story about marital problems , specifically sexual problems ? I shall argue that in the novel Petrucelli's story is organically related to that of the alien now renamed VOR , with the result that VOR's story ...
... alien enigma named RVOG to a story about marital problems , specifically sexual problems ? I shall argue that in the novel Petrucelli's story is organically related to that of the alien now renamed VOR , with the result that VOR's story ...
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