The Esperanto Movement
The Esperanto Movement

Author: Peter G. Forster

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2013-02-06

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 3110824566

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.

Esperanto and Its Rivals
Esperanto and Its Rivals

Author: Roberto Garvía Soto

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-06-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0812247108

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Roberto Garvía explores the history of artificial spoken or written languages and the people who fought for them. Taking the three most prominent—Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido—Garvía investigates what drove so many to invest incredible energy and time to learn and promote them.

Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language
Esperanto, Interlinguistics, and Planned Language

Author: Humphrey Tonkin

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780761808473

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A collection of 11 papers, one in German, and an interview in French with Umberto Eco. The topics include the term planned language, Esperanto as a unique model for general linguistics, a dialogue between sociolinguistic sciences and Esperanto culture, the experience of Esperanto in developing a language for international law, and machine translation. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, 1887-2007
Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, 1887-2007

Author: Geoffrey Sutton

Publisher: Mondial

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 1595690905

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A unique work of international reference with more than 300 individual articles on the most important authors, this resource tells the fascinating story of the development of the literature from its humble beginnings in 1887 to its worldwide use in every literary genre today.

Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community
Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

Author: Sabine Fiedler

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2022-09-09

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 9027257531

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This book addresses a fascinating topic – a constructed language that has turned from a project into a fully-fledged language used by some of its speakers on a daily basis. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides rare and profound insights into the use of Esperanto in a large number of communicative areas. It studies the speakers’ use of code-switching, phraseology and metaphors, techniques they employ to enhance understanding, such as metacommunication and repair strategies, as well as their predilection for humour. The study also contributes to a comparison between the communication in Esperanto and in the language that is now predominantly used as a lingua franca – English – and allows conclusions to be drawn on the question of what a lingua franca is all about.