Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community
Sabine Fiedler and Cyril Robert Brosch
[Studies in World Language Problems, 10] 2022. xx, 429 pp.
Cyril Robert Brosch
List of John Benjamins publications for which Cyril Robert Brosch plays a role.
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Subjects Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics
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2022 Chapter 14. The language choices of exchange students: Between “After all, I’m here to learn Spanish” and “You get along very well without speaking Lithuanian” Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, Grin, François, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 275–296 | Chapter
The Erasmus Programme is the flagship of the EU’s academic exchange programmes. Taking as a point of departure that language proficiency is a key factor of a successful stay abroad, this research focuses on exchange students’ language learning and language choices. It draws on data collected… read more
2018 Esperanto – a lingua franca in use: A case study on an educational NGO Language Problems and Language Planning 42:2, pp. 220–245 | To be specified
A lingua franca can be a mediation choice for people who do not share a common language. Esperanto, a planned language, functions in this way as the working language in an educational non-governmental organization. The main characteristics of this use are described on the basis of interviews,… read more