Mind the age gap

IF 0.4 4区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Guilherme Fians
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Abstract

Esperanto is neither an official nor a commonly spoken language anywhere in the world and, due to the limited number of people who speak this language from birth and who teach it to the next generation, the persistence of this speech community cannot rely on intergenerational language transmission. Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in France, mainly in Paris, this article explores continuities and discontinuities in the Esperanto community and movement bylooking at how present-day young Esperanto speakers use the language online and through networks of sociability. In asking what is transmitted from one generation of Esperanto speakers to the next, and how new communication technologies impact the ways in which people use the language, I analyse how the concentration of speakers from different age groups around distinct technologies creates a segmentation in this community that leaves some issues incommunicable and hard to transmit. I argue that, on the one hand, engaging with Esperanto through Esperanto associations and, on the other hand, through social media and non-institutionalised gatherings, shapesdifferent perceptions of the language, marking a shift from Esperanto as a forward-looking cause for activists to Esperanto as a tool for sociability and an intellectual game for language-lovers.
注意年龄差距
世界语既不是官方语言,也不是世界上任何地方的通用语言,由于从出生起就说这种语言并将其传授给下一代的人数有限,这种语言社区的持续存在不能依赖代际语言传播。本文基于在法国(主要是在巴黎)进行的一年的民族志实地调查,通过观察当今年轻的世界语使用者如何在网上和社交网络中使用世界语,探讨了世界语社区和运动的连续性和不连续性。在询问一代讲世界语的人向下一代传递了什么,以及新的通信技术如何影响人们使用语言的方式时,我分析了来自不同年龄组的讲世界语者集中在不同的技术周围是如何在这个社区中造成分裂的,这使得一些问题无法沟通,难以传播。我认为,一方面,通过世界语协会与世界语交流,另一方面通过社交媒体和非制度化聚会与世界语接触,形成了对语言的不同看法,标志着世界语从活动家的前瞻性事业转变为语言爱好者的社交工具和智力游戏。
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1.00
自引率
16.70%
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19
期刊介绍: Language Problems and Language Planning is published in cooperation with the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems. This international multi-lingual journal publishes articles primarily on political, sociological, and economic aspects of language and language use. It is especially concerned with relationships between and among language communities, particularly in international contexts, and in the adaptation, manipulation, and standardization of language for international use.
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