The beloved mothertongue
Subtitle: ethnolinguistic nationalism in small nations : inventories and reflections
By: edited by Petra Broomans ... [et al.].
Contributors: Broomans, Petra.
Series: Groningen studies in cultural change -- v. 33
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9789042921504
Subjects: Language and languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses; Nationalism -- Scandinavia -- Congresses; Nationalism -- Netherlands -- Congresses; Nationalism -- Belgium -- Flanders -- Congresses; Scandinavia -- Languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses; Flanders (Belgium) -- Languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses; Netherlands -- Languages -- Political aspects -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Other titles: Ethnolinguistic nationalism in small nations
Notes: Essays based on contributions to a workshop held May 2005 at the University of Groningen with title: Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the Dutch-speaking region and Scandinavia.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: How useful is the concept of ethnolinguistic nationalism? On imagined communities, the ethnic-civic dichotomy and banal nationalism / Maarten Van Ginderachter; title: Linguistic geopolitics and the problems of cultural nationalism / Jeop Leerssen; title: The concept of ethnolinguistic nationalism and cultural transfer. The reception of Scandinavian Literature in Flanders and the Netherlands / Petra Broomans; title: From language to nationality. The case of the Dutch-speaking Belgians in the Nineteenth Century / Bruno De Wever; title: Minorities and kinships. The case of ethnolinguistics nationalism in Friesland / Goffe Jensma; title: Language policy as a cornerstone of nation-building. Linguistic identities in the Nordic countries / Godelieve Laureys; title: Language, national culture and the clergy in nineteenth-century Denmark  / Nikolaj Bijleveld; title: The song of the mother tongue. Swedophone Finland as text / Clas Zilliacus; title: Linguistic distance between 'Flemish' and Norwegian around 1900. Subjective views and objective measurements / Charlotte Gooskens and Renée van Bexooijen; title: The power of illusion. Flemish writers on Germany, 1870-1914 / Greet Draye; title: The Netherlands: an ethnic nation in spite of Itself / Marnix Beyen; title: Racial-linguistic nationalism. Race, language and nation at the Antwerp Universal Exhibition of 1894 /Hans Vanevoorde.