Language and Identity in the Balkans
Title | Language and Identity in the Balkans PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Greenberg |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 2004-03-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0191514551 |
Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croatian language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened. Basing his account on first-hand observations in the region before and since the communist demise, he evokes the drama and emotional discord as different factions sought to exploit, prevent, exacerbate, accelerate or just make sense of the chaotic and unpredictable language situation. His fascinating account offers insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity. It also provides a uniquely vivid perspective on nationalism and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia.
The Romance-Speaking Balkans
Title | The Romance-Speaking Balkans PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2021-03-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004456171 |
This volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the Balkans, offering a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account on this crossroads region.
(Hidden) Minorities
Title | (Hidden) Minorities PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Promitzer |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3643500963 |
This book asks why several ethnic and linguistic groups in Central Europe and the Balkans have not yet been legally recognized as national minorities. Some of these hidden minorities have not developed an intellectual elite that can visibly present their identity and claims to the majority population. Other groups are deliberately concealing their existence and language for reasons of self-protection. The chapters in this volume address the everyday mechanisms of hiding and being hidden in the transition zone of these two European regions.
Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans
Title | Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Detrez |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9789052012971 |
The fundamental contrast between convergent and divergent tendencies in the development of Balkan cultural identity can be seen as an important determinative both in the contradictory self-images of people in the Balkans and in the often biased perceptions of Balkan societies held by external observers, past and present. In bringing together case studies from such heterogeneous lines of research as linguistics, anthropology, political, literary and cultural history, each presenting insightful analyses of micro- as well as macro-level aspects of identity construction in the Balkans, this collection of essays provides a forum for the elucidation and critical evaluation of an intriguing paradox which continues to characterize the cultural situation in the Balkans and which, moreover, is of undeniable relevance for our understanding of recent political developments. As such, it also provides a window into the actual state of scholarly interest in the rich interdisciplinary field of Balkan studies. This book contains a selection of papers presented at the international conference «Developing Cultural Identity in the Balkans: Convergence vs. Divergence», organized by the Center for Southeast European Studies at Ghent University on 12 and 13 December 2003 in Ghent.
Language and Identity in the Balkans
Title | Language and Identity in the Balkans PDF eBook |
Author | Greenberg, Robert David Greenberg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN |
Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans
Title | Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans PDF eBook |
Author | Adnan Ajšić |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 187 |
Release | 2021-06-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3030721779 |
This book uses a specialized corpus of public language-related discourse to investigate links between language ideologies and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central Balkans. Despite a century and a half of shared linguistic history, the nations making up the central part of former Yugoslavia continue to debate the ownership over the common language, creating much animosity, some legal issues, and often absurd circumstances. At the heart of the ongoing language debate over Central South Slavic is the belief in language as the cornerstone of ethnonational identity and the legitimacy of ethnic groups’ claims to sovereignty. Given a history of conflict and the recent resurgence in extreme ethnonationalism, an understanding of ethnolinguistic contestation in the region is as important as ever. This book will be of interest to social scientists working in fields as diverse as (applied) linguistics, anthropology, media studies, political science, sociology and history, as well as other scholars with an interest in language and society.
Language and Identity in the Balkans
Title | Language and Identity in the Balkans PDF eBook |
Author | Robert D. Greenberg |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2004-03-25 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199258155 |
Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croatian language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened. Basing his account on first-hand observations in the region before and since the communist demise, he evokes the dramaand emotional discord as different factions sought to exploit, prevent, exacerbate, accelerate or just make sense of the chaotic and unpredictable language situation. His fascinating account offers insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity. It alsoprovides a uniquely vivid perspective on nationalism and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia.