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Esperanto and Its Rivals : The Struggle for an International Language /
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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Emergence of Linguistic Conscience
- PART I. Volapük
- Chapter 2. A Language in Search of a Problem
- Chapter 3. Who Were the Volapükists?
- Chapter 4. "Pandemonium in the Tower of Babel": The Language Critics
- Chapter 5. "Strangled in the House of Its Friends": Volapük's Demise
- Chapter 6. "My Troubled Child": The Artist and the Kulturkampf
- PART II. Esperanto
- Chapter 7. "The Purpose of My Whole Life": Zamenhof and Esperanto
- Chapter 8. "Let Us Work and Have Hope!": Language and Democracy
- Chapter 9. "The Menacing Thunderstorm of Reforms": First Esperantists and First Crises
- Chapter 10. The French Resurgence
- Chapter 11. "Bringing Together the Whole Human Race": Esperanto's Inner Idea
- PART III . The Esperanto Cluster: Same Language, Different Communities
- Chapter 12. The Demographics of Esperantujo
- Chapter 13. Pacifists, Taylorists, and Feminists
- Chapter 14. "Hidden-World Seekers": Esperanto in New Wave and Old Religions
- Chapter 15. Freethinkers, Socialists, and Herderians
- PART IV. Ido and its Satellites
- Chapter 16. "One Ideal International Language": Ido
- Chapter 17. "Linguistic Cannibalism"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments