Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community
Author | : Sabine Fiedler |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2022-09-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789027257536 |
ISBN-13 | : 9027257531 |
Rating | : 4/5 (531 Downloads) |
Download or read book Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community written by Sabine Fiedler and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-09-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.