Esperanto : lingua franca and language community / Sabine Fiedler, Leipzig University, Cyril Robert Brosch, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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Fiedler, Sabine, 1957- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2022]
Description
xx, 429 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

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    "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.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN
    • 9789027211477
    • 9027211477 (hardcover)
    LCCN
    2022026479
    OCLC
    1337564456
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