INTERLINGUISTICS
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Esperanto Interlingua ...altere conlinguas
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Esperanto Studies and Interlinguistics
Informoj en Esperanto troveblas cxi tie.
This site provides a English-language guide to scholarly work on
so-called "planned" or "international" languages and their relationship
to other fields of general and applied linguistics, sociology,
semiotics, political and educational science. Of more than 900 attempts
to create such languages, only one, Esperanto, has acquired a world-wide
speech community which today is thought to number between half-a-million
and two million speakers. Esperanto studies are thus a particularly
important and active branch of interlinguistics, as this field is
generally known.
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Most of the information in this Web site has been provided by the
organizations and sources listed below, and can be accessed by following
the links. I hope to place many more of the documents referred to on
line in the coming months. Suggestions for further additions are
welcome.
The assistance of the Esperantic Studies Foundation in the creation of
this site is gratefully acknowledged.
Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems
The Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems
(CRD) is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, with an office at the
University of Hartford, CT. It sponsors the scholarly journal "Language
Problems and Language Planning"
http://www.benjamins.nl/benjamins/frames/journals/
problem.httml
which regularly includes articles on Esperanto studies and
interlinguistics; publishes a
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newsletter, Informilo por Interlingvistoj ; and organizes
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an annual series of Conferences on Language and Communication with the
Department of Conference Services at the United Nations, New York.
Recently the Center has begun collaborating with the University Press of
America to publish a series of Occasional Papers containing major papers
from these conferences. Also of interest is the CRD's Hector Hodler
Library in Rotterdam.
Esperantic Studies Foundation
The Esperantic Studies Foundation, a tax-exempt private foundation
incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, operates a
grants program to support research directed at understanding and solving
international language problems. As part of this effort, ESF is
developing an information base, including this Web page, on using
Esperanto and other languages involving non-ASCII characters on the
Internet. Further information on interlingualism, language rights and
language policy is available from ESF's Seattle office. In 1992 ESF
commissioned the wide-ranging report Esperanto and Education: Toward a
Research Agenda.
The Esperantic Studies Foundation publishes a newsletter, Esperantic
Studies , containing provocative articles on the international language
situation and a wealth of hard-to-get information. Here are a few topics
covered in past issues:
- Two Languages for the Price of One?: The Propaedeutic
Puzzle
- What Is Colloquial Esperanto?
- Multilingual Machine Translation
- Conferences Examine Language in the New Europe
- Language Choice & Game Theory
- Linguistic Rights: A Challenge for the UN?
- Languages in Cyberspace: E-Babel
- Conference: Language and the Internet
Departments of Interlinguistics
Some universities offer courses in interlinguistics and
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Esperanto studies. In some cases they are also open to correspondence
students. So far this page contains information about the University of
Poznan, Polland.
Esperanto Documents
The Universal Esperanto Association and the Esperanto League for North
America publish an English-language monograph series under the name
Esperanto Documents. Some documents are available on-line, including:
- Europe's Babylon: Towards a single European
language?
- Psychological resistance to Esperanto
- Esperanto studies: An overview
Bibliographies and Web sites
The Modern Languages Association of America's International Bibliography
of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures contains a
reliable section on "International and Auxiliary Languages", running to
between 300 and 400 items per year,
most of them on Esperanto.
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It is available in many university libraries in bound form or on CD-ROM.
Ulrich Becker has an excellent Interlinguistics Bibliography on his site
for the Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik. See also his thorough
treatment of Interlinguistics
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in the Internet in German, with many
links.
Interlinguistics and the Internet is an English-language
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article by Mark Fettes, originally written for the Summer 1997 issue of
Language Problems and Language Planning. Inspired by Becker's article,
it organizes its material differently and gives greater attention to
Esperanto.
Return to Mark Fettes's Index Page.
Send questions or comments to Mark Fettes.
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