Language And Identity In The Balkans
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Language And Identity In The Balkans
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Author : Robert D. Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-03-25
Language And Identity In The Balkans written by Robert D. Greenberg and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-03-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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.
Language And Identity In The Balkans
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Author : Greenberg, Robert David Greenberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Language And Identity In The Balkans written by Greenberg, Robert David Greenberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Electronic books categories.
The Romance Speaking Balkans
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-03-22
The Romance Speaking Balkans written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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
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Author : Christian Promitzer
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2009
Hidden Minorities written by Christian Promitzer and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
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
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Author : Raymond Detrez
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2005
Developing Cultural Identity In The Balkans written by Raymond Detrez and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
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.
The Balkans
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Author : Stefano Bianchini
language : en
Publisher: Longo Angelo
Release Date : 1998
The Balkans written by Stefano Bianchini and has been published by Longo Angelo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Balkan Identities
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Author : Marii͡a Nikolaeva Todorova
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 2004
Balkan Identities written by Marii͡a Nikolaeva Todorova and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Four main themes are concentrated on in this text, the construction of historical memories; the sites of national memory; the transmission of national memory; and the mobilisation of national identities.
When Ethnicity Did Not Matter In The Balkans
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Author : John V. A. Fine
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010-02-05
When Ethnicity Did Not Matter In The Balkans written by John V. A. Fine and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-05 with History categories.
"This is history as it should be written. In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, a logical advancement on his earlier studies, Fine has successfully tackled a fascinating historical question, one having broad political implications for our own times. Fine's approach is to demonstrate how ideas of identity and self-identity were invented and evolved in medieval and early-modern times. At the same time, this book can be read as a critique of twentieth-century historiography-and this makes Fine's contribution even more valuable. This book is an original, much-needed contribution to the field of Balkan studies." -Steve Rapp, Associate Professor of Caucasian, Byzantine, and Eurasian History, and Director, Program in World History and Cultures Department of History, Georgia State University Atlanta When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans is a study of the people who lived in what is now Croatia during the Middle Ages (roughly 600-1500) and the early-modern period (1500-1800), and how they identified themselves and were identified by others. John V. A. Fine, Jr., advances the discussion of identity by asking such questions as: Did most, some, or any of the population of that territory see itself as Croatian? If some did not, to what other communities did they consider themselves to belong? Were the labels attached to a given person or population fixed or could they change? And were some people members of several different communities at a given moment? And if there were competing identities, which identities held sway in which particular regions? In When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans, Fine investigates the identity labels (and their meaning) employed by and about the medieval and early-modern population of the lands that make up present-day Croatia. Religion, local residence, and narrow family or broader clan all played important parts in past and present identities. Fine, however, concentrates chiefly on broader secular names that reflect attachment to a city, region, tribe or clan, a labeled people, or state. The result is a magisterial analysis showing us the complexity of pre-national identity in Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia. There can be no question that the medieval and early-modern periods were pre-national times, but Fine has taken a further step by demonstrating that the medieval and early-modern eras in this region were also pre-ethnic so far as local identities are concerned. The back-projection of twentieth-century forms of identity into the pre-modern past by patriotic and nationalist historians has been brought to light. Though this back-projection is not always misleading, it can be; Fine is fully cognizant of the danger and has risen to the occasion to combat it while frequently remarking in the text that his findings for the Balkans have parallels elsewhere. John V. A. Fine, Jr. is Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
Problems Of Identities In The Balkans
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Author : Slobodan G. Markovich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Problems Of Identities In The Balkans written by Slobodan G. Markovich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Balkan Peninsula categories.
Balkan And South Slavic Enclaves In Italy
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Author : Thede Kahl
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-07-26
Balkan And South Slavic Enclaves In Italy written by Thede Kahl and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This volume is a collection of new writings dealing with some of the Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in north-eastern, central and southern Italy. It brings together twenty-two papers, some of which investigate the mutual influences between each of these Balkan and South Slavic language varieties and their neighbouring Italian dialects. Other contributions study common tendencies which do not just pertain to local contacts, but which are of greater significance for the history of linguistic and cultural contacts in Italy. All of the chapters here present new empirical findings and reflect the breadth and diversity of current research in the fields of areal linguistics, language variation, Balkan dialectology, language contact, types of Balkan convergences, types of structure transfers, the borrowing of structural patterns, and directions of grammaticalisation.