Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions : exploring esperanto speakers' opinions through corpora / Melanie Maradan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maradan, Melanie, author.

Series:

Sprachwissenschaft

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corpora.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berlin Frank & Timme 2020

Berlin, Germany : Frank & Timme, [2021]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical items (partly) penetrate language use, others do not. Based on electronic networks of practice of the Esperanto speech community, Mélanie Maradan establishes the foundation for a new method to extract speakers’ opinions on lexical items from text corpora. The method is intended as a tool for language managers to detect and explore in context the reasons why speakers might accept or reject lexical items. Mélanie Maradan holds a master’s degree in translation and terminology from the University of Geneva/Switzerland as well as a joint doctoral degree in multilingual information processing and philosophy (Dr. phil.) from the universities of Geneva and Hildesheim/Germany. Her research interests include planned languages (Esperanto studies) as well as neology and corpus linguistics. She works as a professional translator and terminologist in Switzerland.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3-7329-9300-0