Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires

Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires - Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780367471910
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 306.44
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 268
Weight: 453g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 18mm