UID:
almahu_9949598824302882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781000936018
,
1000936015
,
9781003034025
,
1003034020
,
9781000936049
,
100093604X
Series Statement:
Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe
Content:
This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created, legitimized, maintained, or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe. Through chapters from contributors in North America, Europe, and Asia, the book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the rise of the ethnolinguistic nation-state during the past century as the sole legitimate model of statehood in today's Central Europe. The collection's focus is on the last three decades, namely the postcommunist period, taking into consideration the effects of the recent rise of cyberspace and the resulting radical forms of populism across contemporary Central Europe. It analyzes languages and their uses not as given by history, nature, or deity but as constructs produced, changed, maintained, and abandoned by humans and their groups. In this way, the volume contributes saliently to the store of knowledge on the latest social (sociolinguistic) and political history of the region's languages, including their functioning in respective national polities and on the internet. Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires is a compelling resource for historians, linguists, and political scientists who work on Central and Eastern Europe.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 0367471914
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367471910
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003034025
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003034025
