Vocal Utopias: Glossolalias

Abstract

Among French writers glossolalia (or speaking in tongues) is considered the tendency to create new languages that become richer and more stable over time. To a great extent, the formation of such languages is understood to involve clear consciousness and deliberate will (for example, Cgnac or Teulid). By contrast and deviating less from tradition, among German writers, the various verbal forms of glossolalia are considered only the involuntary eruption of intense affective processes with a weakening in the clarity of what is conscious.2