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Published 2022.
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 daily. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book ...
Published 2022.
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 daily. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides rare and profound insights into the use of Esperanto in many 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.
