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Esperanto : lingua franca and language community / Sabine Fiedler, Leipzig University, Cyril Robert Brosch, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Van Pelt Library PM8208.8 .F54 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiedler, Sabine, 1957- author.
- Brosch, Cyril, author.
- Series:
- Studies in world language problems ; 1572-1183 v. 10.
- Studies in world language problems, 1572-1183 ; volume 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Esperanto--Spoken Esperanto.
- Esperanto.
- Esperanto--Usage.
- Esperanto--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 429 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Introduction
- ch. 1 What is Esperanto?
- ch. 2 What is a lingua franca?
- ch. 3 Previous interlinguistic research
- ch. 4 The aim of this book
- ch. 5 Methods and data
- ch. 6 On the structure of this book
- pt. II Esperanto - an overview
- ch. 7 Planned languages and interlinguistics
- ch. 8 The history and ideological background of the Esperanto movement
- ch. 9 Main current domains
- ch. 10 Esperanto as a family language and the phenomenon of Esperanto "native speakers"
- ch. 11 Esperanto as a linguistic system
- pt. III Excursus: The use of Esperanto outside the speech community
- ch. 12 Introduction: Esperanto as a metaphor
- ch. 13 The use of Esperanto for artistic purposes
- ch. 14 The use of the glottonym Esperanto
- ch. 15 The use of Esperanto words in branding
- ch. 16 Some concluding remarks on Esperanto outside its speech community
- pt. IV The main characteristics of Esperanto communication
- ch. 17 Introduction: Communication in Esperanto
- ch. 18 Metacommunication
- 18.1. Introduction
- 18.2. Metacommunicative utterances and their functions
- 18.2.1. Text organisation
- 18.2.2. Audience orientation
- 18.3. Properties of metacommunicative utterances
- 18.3.1. Position within the text
- 18.3.2. Personal pronouns
- 18.3.3. Metacommunicative utterances that have become set expressions
- 18.3.4. Variation in the use of metacommunication
- 18.4. Some concluding remarks on metacommunication in Esperanto
- ch. 19 Working towards mutual understanding: Repairs
- 19.1. Introduction
- 19.2. Types and structure of repairs
- 19.3. Repairs in Esperanto talk
- 19.3.1. Self-initiated self-repairs
- 19.3.2. Other-initiated self-repairs
- 19.3.3. Self-initiated other-repairs
- 19.3.4. Other-initiated other-repairs
- 19.4. Some concluding remarks on repairs in Esperanto
- ch. 20 Humour
- 20.1. Introduction
- 20.2. Humour theories
- 20.3. The linguistic resources of Esperanto for creating humour
- 20.3.1. Language-based humour
- 20.3.2. Main types of language play in Esperanto
- 20.4. Humour as a discursive strategy
- 20.4.1. Functions of humour in Esperanto interactions
- 20.4.2. Humorous devices in conversation
- 20.4.3. Failed humour
- 20.5. Some concluding remarks on humour in Esperanto
- ch. 21 Phraseological units and metaphors
- 21.1. Introduction
- 21.2. Definition
- 21.3. Classifications
- 21.4. The use of phraseological units
- 21.4.1. PUs as text constituents
- 21.4.2. PUs as text-structuring elements
- 21.4.3. Modifications
- 21.5. Analysis of the Esperanto phraseology in the dataset
- 21.6. Historical phraseology: A pilot study
- 21.7. Metaphors and similes
- 21.8. Some concluding remarks on phraseology and metaphors in Esperanto
- ch. 22 Code-switching in Esperanto communication
- 22.1. Introduction
- 22.2. "Ne krokodilu" - language loyalty as a main characteristic of the Esperanto speech community
- 22.3. Types, functions and extent of code-switching
- 22.3.1. Code-switching and setting
- 22.3.2. Functions of code-switching in Esperanto
- 22.3.3. The extent of code-switching in Esperanto
- 22.4. Some concluding remarks on code-switching in Esperanto
- ch. 23 Written vs oral Esperanto
- 23.1. Introduction
- 23.2. Written vs spoken communication
- 23.3. Spoken and written Esperanto
- 23.4. Esperanto in computer-mediated communication
- 23.5. Some concluding remarks on Esperanto in writing and speech
- ch. 24 Attitudes to accents
- 24.1. Introduction
- 24.2. Accents in ethnic languages
- 24.3. Previous research on accents in Esperanto
- 24.4. The role of accents in Esperanto communication
- 24.5. Some concluding remarks on accents in Esperanto
- ch. 25 Esperanto and language change
- 25.1. Introduction
- 25.2. Factors influencing language change in Esperanto
- 25.3. Zamenhof's ideas on language change
- 25.4. The role of speakers in language change
- 25.5. Examples of language change in Esperanto
- 25.5.1. Phonological changes
- 25.5.2. Orthographic changes
- 25.5.3. Lexical changes
- 25.5.4. Semantic changes
- 25.5.5. Morphological changes
- 25.5.6. Grammatical changes
- 25.6. Some concluding remarks on language change in Esperanto
- ch. 26 Esperanto as a corporate language: A case study of an educational NGO
- 26.1. Introduction
- 26.2. Participants and methods
- 26.3. Communication in an NGO in Esperanto
- 26.4. Some concluding remarks on Esperanto as a corporate language
- Acknowledgements
- pt. V Conclusion
- ch. 27 The main characteristics of Esperanto communication
- ch. 28 The speakers of Esperanto and their culture
- ch. 29 Language "ownership"
- ch. 30 Final remarks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Fiedler, Sabine. Esperanto
- ISBN:
- 9789027211477
- 9027211477
- OCLC:
- 1337564456
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