Charakterystyka wartościowań wokół języka esperanto — perspektywa emiczna
A characterization of valuations of Esperanto — an emic perspective

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents an overview of sociolinguistic research along with an ethnolinguistic analysis of three types of data: corpora, press discourse and biographical interviews in order to show the values attributed to Esperanto by its users. The international planned language Esperanto has gathered around itself a thriving community in which it plays a role in integration and identity construal in addition to its primary function as an auxiliary language. The analyses carried out confirm that people involved in the Esperanto movement and using the language on a daily basis associate with it a complex system of values, with Esperanto itself as its centre, both as a language of equality, designed for international communication, and as a diasporic minority language, which it is in the mind of its users.

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