Esperanto: Lingua Franca and Language Community

By Sabine Fiedler

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027211477
• ISBN13: 9789027211477
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 429 Pages