Text Box: Esperantic Studies is published three times annually by the Esperantic Studies Foundation 3900 Northampton St. NW Washington, D.C. 20015 http://esperantic.org/esf/ ESF Board of Directors: President: Humphrey Tonkin, Ph.D. University of Hartford (US) tonkin@mail.hartford.edu Vice-President: David K. Jordan, Ph.D. U California San Diego (US) dkjordan@ucsd.edu Vice-President: Jonathan Pool, Ph.D. Seattle, Washington (US) esf@centerplex.net Secretary: Ian M. Richmond, Ph.D. Université Ste-Anne (CA) ian-velma@ns.sympatico.ca Treasurer: Mark Fettes, Ph.D. Simon Fraser University (CA) mfettes@esperantic.org Director at Large: Grant Goodall, Ph.D. U of Texas at El Paso (US) ggoodall@utep.edu The ESF has the services of an extensive Advisory Board; for information about its members, see: http://esperantic.org/esf/advisory.htm Comments and suggestions concerning this newsletter should be directed to its editor: Paul Hopkins, Ph.D. newsletter@esperantic.org

Esperantic Studies

1/2002 (Summer)

In this issue:

News from Nowhere? A Re-Introduction

Mark Fettes introduces the new version of the ESF newsletter.

 

Learning Esperanto on the Internet

Ian Richmond reports on a symposium on the computer-assisted instruction of Esperanto, held this past April concurrently with the CALICO conference in Davis, California.

 

ESF Annual Report 2001

The Report gives an overview of administrative changes in the ESF and various projects supported by the ESF in 2001. These include the Summer Esperanto Program, the Pasporto Esperanto Video Course, new initiatives in developing educational materials, the Berkeley Student Program, and various projects furthering interlinguistic research.

 

Educational Opportunities

News of three educational programs in interlinguistics. Wim Jansen has been appointed to the chair in interlinguistics at the University of Amsterdam (NL), the North American Summer Esperanto Institute has a new venue, and the interlinguistics program at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (PL), is now accepting new students.

 

Conferences

Upcoming conferences including papers on interlinguistics include the 2002 Esperanto Studies Symposium at the World Esperanto Congress in Fortaleza (BR) and the 17th International Congress of Linguistics in Prague (CZ).

 

New Publications

We review four new publications:

  • Planned Languages: From Concept to Reality
  • Language Planning and Lexicography
  • Studoj pri Interlingvistiko/Studien zur Interlinguistik
  • Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (2nd  revised edition)

 

What’s New in LPLP?

Issue 1/2002 of the journal Language Planning and Language Problems includes articles on US literacy in languages and international affairs (Müller), the costs of linguistic communication in international bodies (Piron), the sociolinguistic situation of Catalan in the Balearic Islands (Pieras-Guasp), and Vilborg’s etymological dictionary of Esperanto (Minnaja).