CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully select

"A history of Esperanto, the utopian "universal language" invented in 1887"--

Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language—and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esp

Esperanto, spoken by thousands of people across the world, is the most successful international language project. In this book, the French linguist and literary

The problems of international communication and linguistic rights are recurring debates in the present-day age of globalization. But the debate truly began over