International Planned Languages. Essays On Interlinguistics And Esperantology

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The author of this book, the German interlinguist and Esperanto researcher Detlev Blanke (1941-2016), has influenced the study of planned languages like no one else. It is to a large extent due to his lifelong scholarly devotion to this area of research that Interlinguistics and Esperanto Studies (Esperantology) have become serious subjects of study in the academic world. In his publications, Blanke gives an overview of the history of language creation. He describes the most important planned language systems and presents various systems of classification. A special focus is put on Esperanto initiated by L.L. Zamenhof in 1887. (Sabine Fiedler) For Blanke, a planned language was essentially a tool: if it worked it was worthy of study and use; if it failed to work, he was interested in why, though at the same time careful to avoid value judgments. Blanke himself spoke a planned language, namely Esperanto, and recognised this language and language projects like it as arising out of a coherent theoretical base and addressing a recognisable problem. Essentially independently of the sociolinguistic school in the west, Blanke had reached a similar conclusion: if a language phenomenon exists, it is worthy of scholarly examination in itself. Blanke was particularly interested in how planned languages related to ethnic languages, how the 'artificiality' of, say, Esperanto extended to, indeed was synonymous with, the 'artfulness' of ethnic language, and how planned language could solve taxonomic and terminological problems. (Humphrey Tonkin)
  • | Author: Detlev Blanke, Sabine Fiedler
  • | Publisher: Mondial
  • | Publication Date: Jun 27, 2018
  • | Number of Pages: 228 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback/Language Arts & Disciplines
  • | ISBN-10: 1595693777
  • | ISBN-13: 9781595693778
Author:
Detlev Blanke, Sabine Fiedler
Publisher:
Mondial
Publication Date:
Jun 27, 2018
Number of pages:
228 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback/Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN-10:
1595693777
ISBN-13:
9781595693778