Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks: Language Politics, Digital Media and the Making of an International Community
- Автор: Fians Guilherme
- Год: 2022
- Язык: русский
- Жанр: Культурология
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In a ground-breaking ethnographic study on political power and social organisation among indigenous peoples in South America, Pierre Clas- tres (1989) argues that several indigenous groups lack a state apparatus. Yet, this is so not because they are incapable of organising centralised power structures, but because they deliberately develop mechanisms against state formation. Along comparable lines, the language ideology that precedes, grounds and justifies Esperantos existence takes shape through practices that set the speech community against the language council, thus actively preventing the emergence of an incontestable and centralised authority. Therefore, despite the existence of dictionaries, prominent Esperanto users and the Akademio, there is still room for the continuous emergence of debates on which word to choose during a discussion about drones.
The three competing principles outlined here are what enable Esperanto to take shape, to the eyes and ears of its speakers, as an accessible, egalitarian, fairer and more inclusive language. As language is rendered consistently negotiable and open for grabs, Esperanto is constantly (re)politicised, which establishes a relatively democratic space open for linguistic controversies and conflicts to arise. By pursuing more horizontal forms of communication, Esperantos language ideology empowers users to continuously contribute to language development and gives them opportunities to suggest the use of one word instead of another, thus expressing themselves more freely, without neces- sarily being judged as 'bad language users'. In this sense, Esperanto (re)politicises intercultural communication, encouraging people to think about the role of language, mutual understanding and equality when using the language in both its written and spoken forms. However, instead of complementing each other, the three principles that enable this inclusive approach often compete with each other, which makes this speech community a linguistic battlefield for both supporters of the fundamental language and all kinds of reformers.
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