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Volume 11, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2042-7824
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7832

Abstract

The language spoken in is a constructed language. It is both recognizable and unrecognizable; it gives credibility to the characters and to the whole décor. Reality is elusive and yet believable. Perceived as a multilayered language, it is reduced to one single word in the final sequence.

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