glossopoeia

发音

UK /ˌɡlɒsəʊˈpɪə/
US /ˌɡlɑsoʊˈpi.ə/

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The creation of constructed languages for artistic purposes; language so created.

    不可数

    2007, Carl F. Hostetter, "Languages Invented by Tolkien", In M.C. Drout, ed., The J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, pp. 332, In short, we see a movement from language creation as a utilitarian and thus shared endeavor toward glossopoeia that is at once strongly abstract and artistic in pursuing and expressing a private and personal linguistic aesthetic and that is rigorously historical and systematic, susceptible within the fictive construct to the scientific tools of historical philology: an aspect of language creation nearly if not entirely unique to Tolkien.

    2009 May 12, Tashi “Cracking the Mayan Code on Nova PBS”, rec.music.classical.guitar, Usenet, I don't have any idea what you are talking about. I don't equate Glossopoeia with Mathematics, it is the creation of language.

词源

From glosso- (“language”) + -poeia (“making”); coined by J. R. R. Tolkien.

来源:wiktionary