Esperanto : lingua franca and language community
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Esperanto : lingua franca and language community
（Studies in world language problems, v. 10）
John Benjamins, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-409) and index
"This e-book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license."-- T.p. verso
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"-- Provided by publisher
