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Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiedler, Sabine
- Brosch, Cyril Robert, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (449 p.)) ill
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company Sept. 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.
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