Esperanto and its rivals : the struggle for an international language / Roberto Garvia.
Roberto Garvía explores the history of artificial spoken or written languages and the people who fought for them. Taking the three most prominent-Volapük, Esperanto, and Ido-Garvía investigates what drove so many to invest incredible energy and time to learn and promote them.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Emergence of Linguistic Conscience
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Chapter 16. "One Ideal International Language": Ido
- Chapter 17. "Linguistic Cannibalism"
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.