Esperanto and Its Rivals: The Struggle for an International Language - Couverture rigide

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Garvía, Roberto

 
9780812247107: Esperanto and Its Rivals: The Struggle for an International Language
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ISBN 10 : 0812247108 ISBN 13 : 9780812247107
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roberto Garvia is Associate Professor of Sociology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812247108
ISBN 13 
9780812247107
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
240
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