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Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

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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.

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1974The Interpretation of Cultures 1974A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation 2000Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English 1993The contemporary theory of metaphor 1988Variation across Speech and Writing 1977The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation 1983Pragmatics 1993Genre analysis : English in academic and research settings. By John M. Swales (Cambridge applied linguistics series.) Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. 260. Cloth $34.50, paper $15.95.

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