by Redakcio | Jul 1, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
This article discusses the real-world consequences of what it calls the “linguistic contortionism” increasingly used in current English to avoid the word “woman” and associated accusations of transphobia. Ĉi tiu artikolo en la angla diskutas la sekvojn por la reala...
by Redakcio | Jun 30, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
As our primary form of communication, language is the cornerstone of how we interact with the world. However, for marginalized communities like the LGBTQ+ community, language has a long politically charged history that continues to influence how individuals and the...
by Redakcio | Jun 28, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
From the playground to the workplace, people from immigrant communities in the UK say accent-based racism impacts their daily lives. It’s called linguistic racism, and is directed at people who speak in ways considered to be non-standard or “foreign-sounding”. It is...
by Redakcio | Jun 24, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
The article “Exploring the grammar of othering and antagonism as enacted in terrorist discourse: verbal aggression in service of radicalisation”, recently published in the journal Nature, examines the role of certain grammatical choices in the practice of “othering”...
by Redakcio | Jun 23, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
This article on the website of the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics summarizes the history of Esperanto in China and looks to the future: “If China continues to grow, there will likely be a clash between the Chinese and English languages. When that...
by Redakcio | Jun 21, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
The University of Tours, France hosted a seminar on artificial languages once a week from the end of April until early June, including presentations by Sabine Fiedler (“The Esperanto speech community: sociological, ideological, cultural and linguistic aspects”),...
by Redakcio | Jun 17, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
165 years ago, the 11th of June saw the birth of Antoni Grabowski (1857–1921), a Polish chemist, terminologist, polyglot, Volapükist and Esperantist; the first president of the Polish Esperanto Association (1908–21), secretary of the first World Esperanto Congress...
by Redakcio | Jun 16, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
The article “Christians, Jews and Muslims, we all inhabit the same sea. On the etymology of Europe” by Davide Astori (on pages 23–38 of issue 9/2021 of the journal Occhialì) has a section about Zamenhof’s idea that Esperanto could serve as a bridge religion. La...
by Redakcio | Jun 14, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
The World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO) in collaboration with the Council of Europe is organizing two international seminars “Exploring Inclusivity: Achieving truly inclusive societies” and “Languages for Democracy: Revitalization of pluralistic democracies and...
by Redakcio | Jun 13, 2022 | [BULLETIN · BULTENO]
At a major conference to be held from 19 to 23 July, over 450 scholars will gather to present papers and to engage in progressive discussion on European and Mediterranean linguistic anthropology, language and society, sociolinguistics and related fields. The theme is...
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