Information about written examination (January 27, 2011, 15.15) 1

Things have not gone as smoothly as we might like. But in the interests of giving you all a head start here is the information on things to know from the sections taught by Dr Koutny.

Links and info about the sections taught by me to come tomorrow by 1800-19.00.

International communication and international languages

Ilona Koutny & Mike Farris

Topics for the exam (written test: 27.01.2011.  15.15)

International communication 

Historical international languages : Sumerian, Akkadian, Old Aramaic, Koine Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French and Russian

Living international / world languages: English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese  … criteria:

• a large number of speakers
• a substantial fraction of non-native speakers (so they can function as lingua francas)
• official status in several countries
• a linguistic community not defined strictly along ethnic lines (multiethnic, pluricentric language)
• one or more standard registers which are widely taught as a foreign language
• association with linguistic prestige
• use in international trade relations
• use in international organizations
• use in the academic community
• significant body of literature

See: Wiki: World language, The World's 10 most influential Languages, Lingua franca, International auxiliary language

International English see abstract by Phillipson: http://www.uea.org/vikio/Summary_Of_English-Only_Europe

Language policy in European Union (http://en.nitobe.info/ld/index.php), unequitable profit of UK – Grin report (http://en.nitobe.info/ar/kampanjoj/grin-letero.php)

Interlinguistics: field see Wiki Interlinguistics

Goals of language planning

Planned international languages:

            A priori languages (Solresol), philosophical languages

            A posteriori languages (Ido, Interlingua ß IALA)

Leibniz: language as mathematics

Volapük

Esperanto - Zamenhof

Esperanto grammar (list of affixes), Esperanto vocabulary (list of affixes)

Esperanto culture – presentation of IK + poems

Comparison of Esperanto, Ido and Interlingua http://eo.nitobe.info/ld/lingvoj/planlingvoj.php

For those who take the oral examination one piece of the reduced bibliography is compulsory

Reduced bibliography

Piron, Claude: Psychological Aspects of the World Language Problem and of Esperanto. http://claudepiron.free.fr/articlesenanglais/psychologicalaspects.htm

Piron, Claude: Linguistic Communication - A Comparative Field Study.

The Trilingual European: a realistic expectation?

Piron, Claude: The language challenge -- facing up to reality http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Piron&search_type=&aq=f

Schubert, Klaus (Ed.) 1989: Interlinguistics. Aspects of the Science of Planned Languages. Berlin / New York: Mouton de Gruyter; Intr. http://dok.esperantic.org/ced/interl.htm

Skutnabb-Kangas, T. & Phillipson, R: Linguistic Human Rights: Overcoming Linguistic Discrimination, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994.

Tonkin, H. (2003-2004): Language and society. Issues in Global Education 178. New York: The American Forum for Global Education.  http://www.globaled.org/issues/178F.pdf

Communication and Power – A Rational Perspective Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Language Policy and Linguistic Rights at the United Nations   Mark Fettes

International Communication in an Era of Cultural Globalization Françoise Cestac

 The Contribution of the International Language Esperanto towards Linguistic Diversity Abel Montagut