2022 Marjorie Boulton Fellowships
The Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) announces its 2022 competition for research fellowships in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, particularly as they relate to interlinguistics, linguistic justice, intercultural communication, Esperanto, and related phenomena. Interdisciplinary work is welcome, and primary disciplines may include, but are not limited to, linguistics,...
Becas Marjorie Boulton 2022
Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) convoca su concurso de 2022 en búsqueda de becas en todos los campos de las humanidades y las ciencias sociales, particularmente en lo que se refiere a interlingüística, justicia lingüística, comunicación intercultural, Esperanto y fenómenos afines. El trabajo interdisciplinario es bienvenido, y las disciplinas primarias pueden incluirse, pero no están...
Bourses Marjorie Boulton 2022
L’Esperanto Studies Foundation (ESF) annonce son concours de 2022 pour des bourses de recherche dans tous les champs des humanités et des sciences sociales, en particulier dans les domaines liés à l’interlinguistique, la justice linguistique, la communication interculturelle, l’espéranto, et les champs connexes. Une recherche interdisciplinaire serait un atout. Parmi les champs principaux...
Stipendioj Marjorie Boulton 2022
Esperantic Studies Foundation (ESF) anoncas sian konkurson de 2022 por esplorstipendioj en ĉiuj fakoj de la homaj kaj sociaj sciencoj, precipe se kun rilatoj al interlingvistiko, lingva justeco, interkultura komunikado, Esperanto kaj parencaj fenomenoj. Interfaka laboro estas bonvena, kaj ĉeffakoj povas inkluzivi lingvistikon, sociologion, historion, antropologion, komunikadon aŭ...
Archives at Vienna’s Esperanto Museum
The Esperanto Museum in Vienna has for a long time been mainly regarded as a museum and library concerning Esperanto and constructed languages, but in fact, since its foundation in 1927, it has also been home to content-rich archives. Today the Esperanto Museum curates 72 personal and institutional archives. The first large archives arrived as far back as the start of the 1930s, such as the...
Archivos en el Museo de Esperanto en Viena
El Museo del Esperanto en Viena ha sido considerado durante mucho tiempo como un museo y una biblioteca de Esperanto y lenguas planeadas, pero de hecho, desde su fundación en 1927, también ha albergado importantes archivos. El Museo de Esperanto cuenta actualmente con 72 archivos personales e institucionales. Los primeros archivos grandes aparecieron a principios de la década de 1930, como la...
Arkivoj en la Esperantomuzeo en Vieno
La Esperantomuzeo en Vieno longtempe estis precipe perceptata kiel muzeo kaj biblioteko pri Esperanto kaj planlingvoj, sed ĝi fakte estas ekde sia fondo en la jaro 1927 ankaŭ hejmo de enhavoriĉaj arkivoj. Nuntempe la Esperantomuzeo konservas 72 personajn kaj instituciajn arkivojn. Jam komence de la 1930-aj jaroj venis la unuaj grandaj arkivaĵoj, ekzemple la kolekto Hachette, kiu konsistas el...
Marjorie Boulton Fellowship Report
Born in Gouda in the Netherlands, I had a strong interest in foreign languages from an early age. I had the opportunity to learn several modern and classical languages in school. Upon graduation, I decided to expand my interest by choosing to study Japanese in university. I received my BA and MA in Japanese Studies from Leiden University and my PhD in East Asian Studies from the University of...
Bulletin · Bulteno
Short bilingual announcements of publications and projects
Mallongaj dulingvaj anoncoj pri eldonaĵoj kaj projektoj
Contribute an item · Kontribui eron
Coming to a Close · Proksimiĝi al fino
The final chapter in Guilherme Fians’s book Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks is called “Coming to a Close, or How Not to Put an End to the Conversation”. The chapter analyses how Esperanto’s continuous existence and regular use emerge from the fact that the...
Klingon and Interslavic in the office · La klingona kaj interslava en la oficejo
The most recent version of the freely distributable and open-source office suite LibreOffice supports directly marking that a text (or part of one) is written in Klingon or Interslavic. In the words of British technology news website The Register: “Constructed...
New Trends in Translation and Technology · Novaj Tendencoj en Tradukado kaj Teknologio
The international conference “New Trends in Translation and Technology” will take place on the island of Rhodes, Greece, from 4 to 6 July 2022. For details of the topics and further information, please see the NETTT’2022 website. La internacia konferenco “Novaj...
When Esperantists Meet · Kiam esperantistoj renkontiĝas
Guilherme Fians’s book Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks includes a chapter entitled “When Esperantists Meet, or What Makes This Community International?”. It explores how certain understandings of nationality emerged historically among Esperanto speakers,...
Yiddish and “Lingvo Universala” · La jida kaj “lingvo universala”
In a new book, Zamenhof’s Yiddish Grammar and His Universal Language: Two Projects in Ashkenazi Culture, Christer Kiselman compares the Yiddish language as described by Zamenhof with his contemporaneous language project – and Esperanto’s predecessor – Lingvo...
Vacancy for professor of translation studies · Profesoro pri tradukstudoj serĉata
Kent State University, Ohio is looking for an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Translation Studies, specialising in Japanese translation, to start in August 2022. The successful candidate will teach Japanese-English translation workshop courses at the M.A....
Mobile Youth · Poŝtelefona junularo
“Mobile Youth: How Digital Media Changed Language Learning, Activism for Free Speech and the Very Experience of Time” is a chapter in Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks by Guilherme Fians. It explores how digital media and the emergence of the first natively digital...
Success would mean failure · Sukceso signifus malsukceson
The chapter “We Have Never Been Universal: How Speaking a Language Becomes a Prefigurative Practice” in the book Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks by Guilherme Fians argues that the Esperanto movement is only sustainable insofar as Esperanto does not become a de...
Flat and fast but not melodious · Plata kaj rapida sed ne melodia
“Eros, Beauty, and Phon-Aesthetic Judgements of Language Sound. We Like It Flat and Fast, but Not Melodious. Comparing Phonetic and Acoustic Features of 16 European Languages” is a fascinating article by Vita Kogan and Susanne Reiterer, published a year ago in...
Fettes to direct theme of indigenous languages · Fettes reĝisoros pri indiĝenaj lingvoj
At the end of January 2022, Dr Mark Fettes, ex-president of UEA and professor of education, agreed to serve as theme director for the 107th World Esperanto Congress in Montreal. The theme was inspired by the UN's decision to build on the experiences of 2019, the...
The word was made flesh · La vorto fariĝis karno
Chapter 2 of Guilherme Fians’s Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks bears the title “And the Word Was Made Flesh, or How to Narrate Histories”. Understanding how Esperanto has been historically conveyed as timely requires revisiting the battle of artificial languages,...
Language communities in Japan · Lingvaj komunumoj en Japanio
The book Language Communities in Japan, published in January, contains a chapter by KIMURA Goro Christoph and GOTOO Hitosi called “Esperanto: Internationalism, dialogue, and an evolving community”. La anglalingva libro Lingvaj komunumoj en Japanio, eldonita en...
In the beginning was the word · En la komenco estis la vorto
Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks by Guilherme Fians starts with a chapter entitled “In the Beginning Was the Word”. The text reassesses the idea that “nobody speaks Esperanto any more”, outlines the particularities that set Esperanto apart from other languages, and...
Poznań: Virtual interlinguistics session · Poznano: Virtuala interlingvistika sesio
The interlinguistics group that kicked off in September 2021 began its second semester in February with a virtual session (2-13 Feb 2022). At present, 33 students (from 18 countries) have completed their exams from the first semester and attended the new courses. La...
Advances in interdisciplinary language policy · Antaŭenpaŝoj en interfaka lingvopolitiko
Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy is the ninth and latest volume in the series Studies in World Language Problems. It contains contributions by Mark Fettes, by Sabine Fiedler and Cyril Brosch, and by François Grin, editor of the journal Language Problems...
Speech community v language council · Parolkomunumo kontraŭ lingvoakademio
Another interesting chapter in Guilherme Fians’s new book Esperanto Revolutionaries and Geeks is “The Speech Community Against the Language Council: Vocabulary Choice, Authority and Standardisation in a No Man’s Language”. It focuses on what speakers do with Esperanto...
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