Topic list for presentation

From the "I could have sworn I did that already" file.

Here (after the jump) is a list of possible presentation topics.

Topics for presentations:

Outline of a specific creole language

Papiamento

Tok Pisin

Crioulo

Jamaican,

other

Outline of an emerging pidgin (camfranglais, sheng, portunhol etc)

Portunhol – spontaneous (mostly written) combination of Spanish and Portuguese (esp in areas of Argentia and Uruguay that border Brasil)

Sheng – Kenya (Swahili-English mix)

Camfranglais (Cameroon, English-French mix in Cameroon)

other

Create your own Pidgin (or Creole?)

Create a pidgin from two languages you know, report on what's easy and hard about the process

International (cross linguistic) use of a particular (non-English) language

French, Spanish, Arabic, German, Chinese

Ways a particular language community tries to promote its language as a foreign language.

British Council,

Goethe Institute

Cervantes Institute

Alliance Française

Confucius Institutes

other

Basic information on a planned language

Interlingua – fairly successful, based on the idea that common vocabulary and minimal vocabulary are enough "at sight"

Ido – modified version of Esperanto with a small, but active user base

Lojban – discussed a little in class

Loglan – predecessor of Lojban

Láadan – discussed a little in class

An older sytem

Solresol – based on musical notes

Volapuk – first successful planned language

Novial, Occidental, Idiom Neutral, Interglosa, Glosa etc etc etc

Basic information on the ideology of 'International English' (efforts to create or discover a more neutral variety for cross cultural purposes)

Some aspect of Esperanto

More detailed  description of some aspect of the grammar

Critiques of Esperanto

Persecution of Esperanto

Presentation of some aspect of Esperanto arts and/or culture

The Esperanto movement in a particular place or time

Internet resources for Esperanto

Some other aspect of Esperanto