Bisma strongly believes pop culture shapes human lives. She is particularly concerned about the media portrayals of gender, class, race, and sexuality on television, their intersectionality, and ...

While Season 8 of Game of Thrones may not have stuck the landing for many fans, the show is still fantastic for many reasons. One of the best things about the show is that, just like the books, ...

When watching Game of Thrones, many fans may catch themselves wondering whether or not there’s anything actually being said when characters speak Dothraki. There’s no way the actors could learn lines ...

Who would have thought that the quirky sitcom The Office, known for its awkward humor and paper salesmen, could inspire a specific grammatical rule in the Dothraki language of Game of Thrones?Yet, if ...

David J. Peterson created two complete languages for Game of Thrones based on only a few lines of dialogue in the books. Watch as David reviews people on the attempting to speak Dothraki and High ...

David Peterson, UC Berkeley alumnus and creator of Dothraki and High Valyrian languages spoken in “Game of Thrones,” will be teaching a three-unit course this summer, called “The Linguistics of Game ...

It's fair to say Game of Thrones has been a big success story, and it's not a surprise - it's very, very good! One of the stand-out talents on the show has to be Emilia Clarke, who stars as Daenerys, ...

A fan of “Game of Thrones” dresses as Kahl Drogo, a member of the Dothraki, a fictional people and language that is at the center of a new college course at the University of California Berkeley ...

David Peterson, who will be coming to campus to discuss the history of language creation and his own methods of 'conlanging'—or constructing languages—on Feb. 18 at 6 p.m. in the CASE Auditorium ...