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Author | : Patrick Stevenson |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2010-07-31 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0748635998 |
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This book explores the dynamics of language and social change in central Europe in the context of the end of the Cold War and eastern expansion of the European Union. One outcome of the profound social transformations in central Europe since the Second World War has been the reshaping of the relationship between particular languages and linguistic varieties, especially between 'national' languages and regional or ethnic minority languages. Previous studies have investigated these transformed relationships from the macro perspective of language policies, while others have taken more fine-grained approaches to individual experiences with language. Combining these two perspectives for the first time--and focusing on the German language, which has a uniquely complex and problematic history in the region--the authors offer an understanding of the complex constellation of language politics in central Europe. Stevenson and Carl's analysis draws on a range of theoretical, conceptual and analytical approaches - language ideologies, language policy, positioning theory, discourse analysis, narrative analysis and life histories - and a wide range of data sources, from European and national language policies to individual language biographies. The authors demonstrate how the relationship between German and other languages has played a crucial role in the politics of language and processes of identity formation in the recent history of central Europe.
Author | : T. Kamusella |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1167 |
Release | : 2008-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230583474 |
Download The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.
Author | : Jenny Carl |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Focusing on contact between German and other languages, the contributors in this book analyze the ways in which language practices and discourses on language have changed since the end of the Cold War.
Author | : J. Carl |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2015-12-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0230241662 |
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Central Europe has always been a highly multilingual region but how has this been affected by the social and political transformations of the last 20 years? The German language in particular has long played a key role in processes of identification here: but what role is the relationship between German and other languages playing today in the reshaping of societies and communities in this rapidly changing region? How is this relationship articulated in discourses on language and language ideologies? How is it manifested in individual repertoires and social practices? How is it determined by social and cultural policies? How is it exploited in the construction of European identities? These are just some of the questions addressed in this book, in which individual studies explore language practices in the multilingual contact zones of central Europe and the impact of both past and present migrations. Analysing a wide range of sources from media texts to language biographies and from business meetings to salsa classes, the authors demonstrate the local effects of global processes and some of the many ways in which language figures in contemporary social change.
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Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2009-09-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230623964 |
Download Central and Eastern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The collapse of communism in 1989 paved the way for the reunification of the continent. This book analyzes the impact of the different dynamics of change since 1989 on public policy and on various economic and political sectors.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9401208174 |
Download Yet Another Europe after 1984 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Much of the debates in this book revolves around Milan Kundera and his 1984 essay “The Tragedy of Central Europe.” Kundera wrote his polemical text when the world was pregnant with imminent social and political change, yet that world was still far from realizing that we would enter the last decade of the twentieth century with the Soviet empire and its network of satellite states missing from the political map. Kundera was challenged by Joseph Brodsky and György Konrád for allegedly excluding Russia from the symbolic space of Europe, something the great author deeply believes he never did. To what extent was Kundera right in assuming that, if to exist means to be present in the eyes of those we love, then Central Europe does not exist anymore, just as Western Europe as we knew it has stopped existing? What were the mental, cultural, and intellectual realities that lay beneath or behind his beautiful and graceful metaphors? Are we justified in rehabilitating political optimism at the beginning of the twenty-first century? Are we able to reconcile the divided memories of Eastern or Central Europe and Western Europe regarding what happened to the world in 1968? And where is Central Europe now?
Author | : A. Galasinska |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2008-12-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230594298 |
Download Discourse and Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume explores the discursive nature of post-1989 social change in Central and Eastern Europe. Through a set of national case studies, the construction of post-communist transformation is explored from the point of view of accelerating and unique dynamics of linguistic and discursive practices.
Author | : Susan C. Pearce |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2021-03-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030631974 |
Download Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book weaves together research on cultural change in Central Europe and Eurasia: notably, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Examining massive cultural shifts in erstwhile state-communist nations since 1989, the authors analyze how the region is moving in both freeing and restrictive directions. They map out these directions in such arenas as LGBTQ protest cultures, new Russian fiction, Polish memory of Jewish heritage, ethnic nationalisms, revival of minority cultures, and loss of state support for museums. From a comparison of gender constructions in 30 national constitutions to an exploration of a cross-national artistic collaborative, this insightful book illuminates how the region’s denizens are swimming in changing tides of transnational cultures, resulting in new hybridities and innovations. Arguing for a decolonization of the region and for the significance of culture, the book appeals to a wide, interdisciplinary readership interested in cultural change, post-communist societies, and globalization.
Author | : T. Kamusella |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-12-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137507845 |
Download Creating Languages in Central Europe During the Last Millennium Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After 1918 Central Europe's multiethnic empires were replaced by nation-states, which gave rise to an unusual ethnolinguistic kind of nationalism. This book provides a detailed history and linguistic analysis of how the many languages of Central Europe have developed from the 10th century to the present day.
Author | : Bernd Kortmann |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 934 |
Release | : 2011-07-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110220261 |
Download The Languages and Linguistics of Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Open publicationThe Languages and Linguistics of Europe: A Comprehensive Guide is part of the multi-volume reference work on the languages and linguistics of the continents of the world. The book supplies profiles of the language families of Europe, including the sign languages. It also discusses the areal typology, paying attention to the Standard Average European, Balkan, Baltic and Mediterranean convergence areas. Separate chapters deal with the old and new minority languages and with non-standard varieties. A major focus is language politics and policies, including discussions of the special status of English, the relation between language and the church, language and the school, and standardization. The history of European linguistics is another focus as is the history of multilingual European 'empires' and their dissolution. The volume is especially geared towards a graduate and advanced undergraduate readership. It has been designed such that it can be used, as a whole or in parts, as a textbook, the first of its kind, for graduate programmes with a focus on the linguistic (and linguistics) landscape of Europe.