Linguistics in SF

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Works particularly relating to language or linguistics.

Louky Bersianik. L'Eugelionne, translated as The Eugelion - among other things, an amazing satire, and a critique of the sexism of the French language.
Octavia Butler. "Speech Sounds"
Raphael Carter, "The Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" (styled as an academic paper that uses linguistic studies, but the paper itself is not particularly about linguistics)
Ted Chiang, "Story of Your Life"
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
Candas Jane Dorsey. Black Wine.
Suzette Haden Elgin's Native Tongue and Judas Rose introduce Láadan, a women's language, and a test of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. She also puts out a newsletter on linguistics and sf.
Sheila Finch, the Lingster stories
Janet Kagan, Hellspark
Janet Kagan, Uhura's Song
Rosemary Kirstein. The Language of Power
Naomi Mitchison. Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) (A travelling space explorer is a communicator with all sorts of other species.)
Joanna Russ, "Useful Phrases for the Tourist"
Amy Thomson. The Color of Distance
Lisa Tuttle, "The Cure" (language acquisition)
Connie Willis, "Blue Moon"
Connie Willis, "Spice Program"
Monique Wittig. Les Guerilleres (1971; originally published in French, 1969)
Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. Lesbian Peoples: Material for a Dictionary (1979); originally published as Brouillon pour un Dictionnaire des Amantes (1976)

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