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Publication details [#32441]

Li, David C.S. 2003. Between English and Esperanto: what does it take to be a world language? International Journal of the Sociology of Language 164 : 33–64.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language of wider communication | lingua franca

Language as a subject

English | Esperanto

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper discusses two main problems for Esperanto as a serious contender of English for the role of a world language: relatively limited communicative functions, and the ‘medium-as-message’ paradox.