Cyril Robert Brosch

List of John Benjamins publications in which Cyril Robert Brosch is involved.

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Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community

Sabine Fiedler and Cyril Robert Brosch

This book addresses a fascinating topic – a constructed language that has turned from a project into a fully-fledged language used by some of its speakers on a daily basis. Based on extensive fieldwork, this book provides rare and profound insights into the use of Esperanto in a large number of… read more

[Studies in World Language Problems, 10] 2022. xx, 429 pp. | open access

Articles

Fiedler, Sabine and Cyril Robert Brosch 2022 Chapter 14. The language choices of exchange students: Between “After all, I’m here to learn Spanish” and “You get along very well without speaking Lithuanian” Advances in Interdisciplinary Language Policy, Grin, François, László Marácz and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 275–296 | Chapter

The Erasmus Programme is the flagship of the EU’s academic exchange programmes. Taking as a point of departure that language proficiency is a key factor of a successful stay abroad, this research focuses on exchange students’ language learning and language choices. It draws on data collected… read more

Fiedler, Sabine and Cyril Robert Brosch 2018 Esperanto – a lingua franca in use: A case study on an educational NGO Language Problems and Language Planning 42:2, pp. 220–245 | Article

A lingua franca can be a mediation choice for people who do not share a common language. Esperanto, a planned language, functions in this way as the working language in an educational non-governmental organization. The main characteristics of this use are described on the basis of interviews,… read more