The Esperanto MovementCONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. |
Contents
Size and Spread of the Esperanto Speech Community | 15 |
The Background of the Esperanto Language | 41 |
Ideological Conflict in France | 74 |
The Ido Schism | 110 |
International Organisation 19051922 | 145 |
The League of Nations | 169 |
Socialism and Esperanto | 188 |
Internal Conflicts and the Rise of Nationalism | 212 |
The Postwar Prestige Policy | 230 |
Introductory Note | 263 |
Social Composition of the British Esperanto | 299 |
Members Orientations Towards Esperanto | 333 |
Conclusion | 347 |
The Sixteen Rules of Esperanto Grammar | 375 |
Questionnaire and Accompanying Letter | 388 |
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