Roberto Garvia

Esperanto and Its Rivals

The Struggle for an International Language

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Haney Foundation Series
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9780812247107
• ISBN-10: 0812247108
• Artikelnr.: 42201468

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Emergence of Linguistic Conscience
PART I. VOLAPUKÜK
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 LANGUGE, 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