Overview
First volume to combine a survey of Slavic languages with a focus on identity and linguistic borders
Volume features an international line-up of contributors and pulls together perspectives from a number of disciplines and sub-fields: sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, socio-political history, language politics & planning, language maintenance and nationalism
Interdisciplinary appeal to historians, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists interested in Central and Eastern Europe and Slavic Studies
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Cross-border Turkic and Iranian Language Retention in the West and East Slavic Lands and Beyond: A Tentative Classification
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Identity and Language of the Roma (Gypsies) in Central and Eastern Europe
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North Slavs and Their Languages
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Front Matter
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South Slavs and Their Languages
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croatian language in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia amply illustrates the highly politicized role of languages in this region, which is also home to most of the world’s Slavic-speakers. This volume presents and analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. The overview concludes with a reflection on the recent rise of Slavophone speech communities in Western Europe and Israel. The book brings together renowned international scholars who offer a variety of perspectives from a number of disciplines and sub-fields such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy, making this book of great interest to historians, sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists interested in Central and Eastern Europe and Slavic Studies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Motoki Nomachi is Associate Professor in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. He wrote and edited The Grammar of Possessivity in South Slavic: Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (2011), Slavia Islamica: Language, Religion and Identity (2011, with Robert Greenberg) and Grammaticalization and Lexicalization in the Slavic Languages (2014, with Andrii Danylenko and Predrag Piper).
Catherine Gibson is currently completing an Erasmus International MA at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, United Kingdom, and the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research focuses on transnational history and ethnolinguistic nationalism in the Baltic states.
Contributors to this volume include:
Andrej Beke , University of Tsukuba, Japan Wayles Browne, Cornell University, USA Andrii Danylenko, Pace University, USA István Fried, University of Szeged, Hungary Catherine Gibson, University College London, UK Robert Greenberg, Hunter College of the City University of New York, USA Brian D. Joseph, The Ohio State University, USA Tomasz Kamusella, University of St Andrews, UK Keith Langston, University of Georgia, USA Jouko Lindstedt, University of Helsinki, Finland Paul Robert Magocsi, University of Toronto, Canada Roland Marti, University of the Saarland, Germany Elena Marushiakova, Independent Scholar Vesselin Popov, Independent Scholar Alexander Maxwell, Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand Michael A. Moser,University of Vienna, Austria Motoki Nomachi, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Anna Novikov-Almagor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Anita Peti-Stanti?, University of Zagreb, Croatia Irina Sedakova, Institute for Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Sarah Smyth, Independent Scholar Dieter Stern, Ghent University, Belgium Klaus Steinke, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Paul Wexler, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Slavic Languages, Identities and Borders
Editors: Tomasz Kamusella, Motoki Nomachi, Catherine Gibson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-34839-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34838-8Published: 28 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34839-5Published: 29 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 561
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Slavic and Baltic Languages, Comparative Linguistics