Esperanto: Lingua Franca and Language Community
Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, "Esperanto: Lingua Franca and Language Community"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9027211477 | PDF | pages: 451 | 17.9 mb
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9027211477 | PDF | pages: 451 | 17.9 mb
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.