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Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks

Author : Guilherme Fians
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030842307

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Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks by Guilherme Fians Pdf

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.

Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

Author : Sabine Fiedler,Cyril Robert Brosch
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027257536

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Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community by Sabine Fiedler,Cyril Robert Brosch Pdf

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

Author : Michele Gazzola,François Grin,Linda Cardinal,Kathleen Heugh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429828928

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The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning by Michele Gazzola,François Grin,Linda Cardinal,Kathleen Heugh Pdf

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

Author : Julian Walker,Christophe Declercq
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350141353

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Multilingual Environments in the Great War by Julian Walker,Christophe Declercq Pdf

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.

Imperial Beast Fables

Author : Kaori Nagai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030514938

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Imperial Beast Fables by Kaori Nagai Pdf

This book coins the term ‘imperial beast fable’ to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquing them. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth century and today.

Esperanto and Its Rivals

Author : Roberto Garvia,Roberto Garvía
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780812291278

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Esperanto and Its Rivals by Roberto Garvia,Roberto Garvía Pdf

The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over a hundred years ago, when the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century fostered a desire for the development of a global lingua franca. Many individuals and social movements competed to create an artificial language unencumbered by the political rivalries that accompanied English, German, and French. Organizations including the American Philosophical Society, the International Association of Academies, the International Peace Bureau, the Comintern, and the League of Nations intervened in the debate about the possibility of an artificial language, but of the numerous tongues created before World War II, only Esperanto survives today. Esperanto and Its Rivals sheds light on the factors that led almost all artificial languages to fail and helped English to prevail as the global tongue of the twenty-first century. Exploring the social and political contexts of the three most prominent artificial languages—Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido—Roberto Garvía examines the roles played by social movement leaders and inventors, the strategies different organizations used to lobby for each language, and other early decisions that shaped how those languages spread and evolved. Through the rise and fall of these artificial languages, Esperanto and Its Rivals reveals the intellectual dilemmas and political anxieties that troubled the globalizing world at the turn of the twentieth century.

In the Land of Invented Languages

Author : Arika Okrent
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780812980899

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In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent Pdf

Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language—and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, Loglan (not to be confused with Lojban), and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. With intelligence and humor, Arika Okrent has written a truly original and enlightening book for all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers.

Queer Maghrebi French

Author : Denis M Provencher
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781384596

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Queer Maghrebi French by Denis M Provencher Pdf

Queer Maghrebi French investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France and how these queer men living in France and the diaspora stake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future.

Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs

Author : Curious George Brigade
Publisher : Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 1938660013

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Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs by Curious George Brigade Pdf

Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs lays out a new understanding of political anarchy, one that aims to replace the mass movement with a scrappy multitude of mutineers, mad scientists, sprawling shanties, and thieves in the night. The first edition went out of print in 2009 when the US government stole every remaining copy and all the digital backups with a sealed warrant. Authorship of the book was used in the government's statements to the media as to why the mysterious raid was performed. Now it's back in print, in a new edition!

Untold Stories from the Wild East

Author : András G. Kelemen
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781910781524

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Untold Stories from the Wild East by András G. Kelemen Pdf

András G. Kelemen shares his stories from a long transnational professional career. Kelemen worked in various roles in transnational organisations. He has four children and three grandchildren. When it comes to daily politics, while being a diehart patriot and simoultaneously a cosmopolitan, Kelemen says “I am a diehard democrat. However, to confuse anyone” he admits during his professional years as a top manager he had to skip some democratic processes as the pressures of time specific critical decisions dictated. Kelemen, as clearly seen from his satirical story telling in this book, says he would listen eagerly to the opinions of his colleagues if there was enough time, “but this happened rather scarcely”.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND SUBVERSION (The Second Edition)

Author : MURAT SENGÖZ
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781631815805

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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND SUBVERSION (The Second Edition) by MURAT SENGÖZ Pdf

When the society does not speak the truth, then the voice of the devil can be perceived so as truth. When the truth is expressed in society, peace and solidarity increase in that society. The truth does not want any other translation and always speaks for the sake of goodness. If honesty and virtue have been exalted and prevail in a society, then falsehood, and fraud can be ruled out. Maybe society can be deceived with lies for a while, but surely the truth will always win at the end of the story. When truth becomes dominant in a society, the dissolution ends and the peace settles. Therefore, in this study, the relationship between individual, society, and political power is tried to be explained by the paradigm and norms of axiological value philosophy. In essence, philosophy is an ontological effort to explain nature and to understand the reason for existence. In this book, politics is discussed in the context of individual and social responsibility, thoughts related to political correctness and subversion are tried to be explained through the components of political philosophy.

You Can't Win

Author : Jack Black
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780486826806

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You Can't Win by Jack Black Pdf

"Much of this book is about loneliness. Yet its pages are bracingly companionable. It is one of the friendliest books ever written. It is a superb piece of autobiography, testimony that cannot be impeached. While it is a statement of an American tragedy, it has laughter, brevity, style; as a book to pass the time away with, it is in a class with the best fiction." — Carl Sandburg, New York World "Nothing half as rewarding has come down the highway of books about thieves, tramps, murderers, bootleggers and crooks in years " — New Republic "I believe Jack Black has written a remarkable book; it is vivid and picturesque; it is not fiction; it is a book that was needed and it should be widely read." — Clarence Darrow, New York Herald Tribune A major influence on William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers, this lost classic was written by Jack Black, a drifter and small-time criminal. Born in 1872, Black hit the road at the age of 16 and spent most of his life as a vagabond. In this plainspoken but colorful memoir, he recaptures a hobo underworld of the early twentieth century, a time when it was possible to pass anonymously from town to town. Black's firsthand accounts of hopping trains, burglaries, prison, and drug addiction offer a compelling portrait of life outside the law and honor among thieves.

The Esperanto Movement

Author : Peter G. Forster
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110824568

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The Esperanto Movement by Peter G. Forster Pdf

CONTRIBUTIONS 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.

Uncivilized

Author : John Zerzan,Aragorn!,Wolfi Landstreicher,Jesús Sepúlveda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162049003X

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Uncivilized by John Zerzan,Aragorn!,Wolfi Landstreicher,Jesús Sepúlveda Pdf

Uncivilized is an anthology of Green Anarchy magazine from Eugene Oregan. It collects the uncompromising attack against civilization, technology, the Left that Green Anarchy provided shaped into a weapon for the next generation of anti-civilization anarchists.

Bridge of Words

Author : Esther Schor
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781429943413

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Bridge of Words by Esther Schor Pdf

A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realize In 1887, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, a Polish Jew, had the idea of putting an end to tribalism by creating a universal language, one that would be equally accessible to everyone in the world. The result was Esperanto, a utopian scheme full of the brilliance, craziness, and grandiosity that characterize all such messianic visions. In this first full history of a constructed language, poet and scholar Esther Schor traces the life of Esperanto. She follows the path from its invention by Zamenhof, through its turn-of-the-century golden age as the great hope of embattled cosmopolites, to its suppression by nationalist regimes and its resurgence as a bridge across the Cold War. She plunges into the mechanics of creating a language from scratch, one based on rational systems that would be easy to learn, politically neutral, and allow all to speak to all. Rooted in the dark soil of Europe, Esperanto failed to stem the continent's bloodletting, of course, but as Schor shows, the ideal continues draw a following of modern universalists dedicated to its visionary goal. Rich and subtle, Bridge of Words is at once a biography of an idea, an original history of Europe, and a spirited exploration of the only language charged with saving the world from itself.