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 ...

Avid Game of Thrones fans reveal why George R.R. Martin's Dothraki tribe are more formidable in battle than what most people ...

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 ...

Based on a series of popular books by fantasy writer George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones debuted on television in 2011. Set primarily in the fictional country of Westeros, the series follows an ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

David Peterson is a linguist and the creator of the Dothraki language for Game of Thrones. He’s here today to answer our questions about creating new languages, the role of learning languages in Game ...

Ever wondered how the fictional languages in Game of Thrones are developed? It's David Peterson's job to come up with the made-up languages like Dothraki and Valyrian - he invents the sounds, the ...

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 ...