The Esperanto Movement (Contributions to the Sociology of Language [Csl])

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Frontmatter......Page 1 The Esperanto Anthem......Page 6 Preface......Page 7 Contents......Page 9 List of Tables......Page 11 Abbreviations......Page 13 Introduction......Page 15 1. Size and Spread of the Esperanto Speech Community......Page 27 2. The Background of the Esperanto Language......Page 53 3. Ideological Conflict in France......Page 86 4. The Ido Schism......Page 122 5. International Organisation, 1905-1922......Page 157 6. External Relations: The League of Nations......Page 181 7. External Relations: Socialism and Esperanto......Page 200 8. Internal Conflicts and the Rise of Nationalism 1923-1947......Page 224 9. The Postwar "Prestige" Policy......Page 242 Introductory Note......Page 273 10. The Development of Esperanto in Britain......Page 278 11. Social Composition of the British Esperanto Association......Page 309 12. Members' Orientations Towards Esperanto and the Esperanto Movement......Page 343 Conclusion......Page 357 Appendix I......Page 385 Appendix II......Page 389 Appendix III......Page 391 Appendix IV......Page 394 Appendix V......Page 396 Appendix VI......Page 398 Glossary......Page 405 Bibliography......Page 410 Peter G. Forster. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [400]-413.