Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks write by Guilherme Fians. This book was released on 2022-01-04. Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores how Esperanto – often regarded as a future-oriented utopian project that ended up confined to the past – persists in the present. Constructed in the late nineteenth century to promote global linguistic understanding, this language was historically linked to anarchism, communism and pacifism. Yet, what political relevance does Esperanto retain in the present? What impacts have emerging communication technologies had on the dynamics of this speech community? Unpacking how Esperanto speakers are everywhere, but concentrated nowhere, the author argues that digital media have provided tools for people to (re)politicise acts of communication, produce horizontal learning spaces and, ultimately, build an international community. As Esperanto speakers question the post-political consensus about communication rights, this language becomes an ally of activism for open-source software and global social justice. This book will be of relevance to students and scholars researching political activism, language use and community-building, as well as anyone with an interest in digital media more broadly.
Of Revolutionaries and Geeks
Of Revolutionaries and Geeks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Revolutionaries and Geeks write by Guilherme Moreira Fians. This book was released on 2019. Of Revolutionaries and Geeks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community
Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community write by Sabine Fiedler. This book was released on 2022-09-09. Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning
The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning write by Michele Gazzola. This book was released on 2023-10-03. The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning is a comprehensive and authoritative survey, including original contributions from leading senior scholars and rising stars to provide a basis for future research in language policy and planning in international, national, regional, and local contexts. The Handbook approaches language policy as public policy that can be studied through the policy cycle framework. It offers a systematic and research-informed view of actual processes and methods of design, implementation, and evaluation. With a substantial introduction, 38 chapters and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all decision makers, students, and researchers of language policy and planning within linguistics and cognate disciplines such as public policy, economics, political science, sociology, and education.
Multilingual Environments in the Great War
Multilingual Environments in the Great War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Multilingual Environments in the Great War write by Julian Walker. This book was released on 2021-03-25. Multilingual Environments in the Great War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the differing ways in which language has been used to try to make sense of the First World War. Offering further developments in an innovative approach to the study of the conflict, it develops a transnational viewpoint of the experience of war to reveal less expected areas of language use during the conflict. Taking the study of the First World War far beyond the Western Front, chapters examine experiences in many regions, including Africa, Armenia, post-war Australia, Russia and Estonia, and a variety of contexts, from prisoner-of-war and internment camps, to food queues and post-war barracks. Drawing upon a wide variety of languages, such as Esperanto, Flemish, Italian, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Romanian and Turkish, Multilingual Environments in the Great War brings together language experiences of conflict from both combatants and the home front, connecting language and literature with linguistic analysis of the immediacy of communication.
