Title: The Palgrave handbook of Slavic languages, identities and borders /
Authors: Kamusella, Tomasz; Nomachi, Motoki, 1976-; Gibson, Catherine,
Year: 2016
Subjects: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Slavic Languages (Other); Slavic languages History.; Languages in contact Slavic languages.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: 1. Cross-border Turkic and Iranian Language Retention in the West and East Slavic Lands and Beyond: A Tentative Classification / Paul Wexler -- 2. Identity and Language of the Roma (Gypsies) in Central and Eastern Europe / Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov -- PART I: NORTH SLAVS AND THEIR LANGUAGES -- 3. The Polish Livonian Legacy in Latgalia:The Confluence of Slavic Ethnolects in the Baltic-Slavic Borderland / Catherine Gibson -- 4. Iazychie and Surzhyk: Mixing Languages and Identities in the Ukrainian Borderlands / Andrii Danylenko -- 5. A Borderland of Borders: The Search for a Literary Language in Carpathian Rus / Paul Robert Magocsi -- 6. Rusyn: A New-Old Language In-Between Nations and States / Michael Moser -- 7. The Czech-Slovak Communicative and Dialect Continuum: With and Without a Border / Mira Nábělková -- 8. The Changing Lattice of Languages, Borders and Identities in Silesia / Tomasz Kamusella --^