Neutralizing the political : language ideology as censorship in Esperanto youth media during the Cold War
Abstract
This article takes a magazine for Esperanto youth as an entryway to explore the links between language ideologies and censorial practices. During the Cold War, Esperanto print media sought a connection with the Third World to present Esperanto as an alternative to US-led English and USSR-led Russian. With anti-imperialism gaining ground in these magazines, their editors struggled to adhere to the ideology that posits Esperanto as a neutral and international language. Analyzing the editorial work behind the magazine Kontakto, I explore how partly silencing anti-colonial perspectives worked to safeguard Esperanto's neutrality, ultimately asking: how can language ideologies act as mechanisms of censorship?
Citation
Moreira Fians , G 2024 , ' Neutralizing the political : language ideology as censorship in Esperanto youth media during the Cold War ' , Journal of Linguistic Anthropology , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12427
Publication
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1055-1360Type
Journal article
Description
Leverhulme Trust - RPG-2021-215Collections
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