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Uncertainty in deliberate lexical interventions: Exploring Esperanto speakers’ opinions through corpora

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Language managers in their different forms (language planners, terminologists, professional neologists …) have long tried to intervene in the lexical usage of speakers, with various degrees of success: Some of their lexical items (partly) penetrate language use, others do not. Based on electronic networks of practice of the Esperanto speech community, Mélanie Maradan establishes the foundation for a new method to extract speakers’ opinions on lexical items from text corpora. The method is intended as a tool for language managers to detect and explore in context the reasons why speakers might accept or reject lexical items. Mélanie Maradan holds a master’s degree in translation and terminology from the University of Geneva/Switzerland as well as a joint doctoral degree in multilingual information processing and philosophy (Dr. phil.) from the universities of Geneva and Hildesheim/Germany. Her research interests include planned languages (Esperanto studies) as well as neology and corpus linguistics. She works as a professional translator and terminologist in Switzerland.

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414 MAR u

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Berlin, Germany : Frank and Timme., 2020

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373p.: ill.

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English

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9783732992379

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414

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Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Discourse analysis
Computational linguistics
Semantics.
Planned language
Extralinguistic nature
Linguistic nature
Neologism
Language management
Language change

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