1st Edition

Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires

Edited By Motoki Nomachi, Tomasz Kamusella Copyright 2024
284 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction

Tomasz Kamusella and Motoki Nomachi

Language or Dialect? A Crux in the History of Central European Nation-Building

Joep Leerssen

Language and Place in Recent Eastern European Linguistic Regionalism

Dieter Stern

Part 1: State Languages

The Russian Standard Language from the Empire Through the Revolution and Stalinism to Perestroika

Jan Ivar Bjørnflaten

Attitudes to Linguistic Accuracy among Russian-Speaking Social Media Users

Vera Zvereva

Rethinking the Graphization of the Belarusian Language in Eastern and Western Belarus During the Interwar Period

Shiori Kiyosawa

Urban Oral Ukrainian of the 1920s as Reflected in Early Soviet Literature

Michael Moser

Democratizing Linguistic Forms: Language Regulation and Diachronic Shifts in Czech

Neil Bermel

Script Revitalization? Reemergence of Old Scripts Among South Slavs

Aleksandra Salamurović and Motoki Nomachi

Ideology Against Language: The Current Situation in South Slavic Countries

Snježana Kordić

Change and Variation in the Bulgarian Language of the Internet and Social Media

Eleonora Yovkova-Shii

Part 2: Substate Languages

The Latvian (In)Dependence and the Latgalian Language Question

Tomasz Wicherkiewicz

Silesian: Between Suppression in Poland and Flourishing on the Web

Tomasz Kamusella

Codification of Vojvodina Rusyn: Language Ideology in Kosteljnik's Grammar of 1923

Elena Boudovskaia

Standardizing Vlach Romanian in Eastern Serbia: A Remissive Issue

Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković and Monica Huțanu

Biography

Motoki Nomachi is Professor in the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan. He researches Slavic language contact and linguistic typology, alongside the Slavic micro-languages. Recently, he wrote and edited Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions (2019).

Tomasz Kamusella is Reader in Modern History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. His latest publications include Politics and the Slavic Languages (2021) and Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe (2021).