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...

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