Stephen Barbour / Cathie Carmichael (eds.)

Language and Nationalism in Europe

Herausgeber: Barbour, Stephen; Carmichael, Cathie

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Produktbeschreibung

Chapters by leading scholars are devoted to Britain and Ireland; France; Spain and Portugal; Scandinavia, Iceland, and Finland; the Netherlands and Belgium; Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Luxembourg; Italy; Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic; Bulgaria, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Albania, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Greece and Turkey; the Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, the Baltic States, and the Russian Federation. The book concludes with a consideration of the relative status of the languages of Europe and how these, and the identities they reflect, are changing and evolving.

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This volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities in Europe, considering the way in which language may sometimes reinforce national identity (as in England) while tending to subvert the nation-state (as in the United Kingdom). The book describes the interactive roles of language, ethnicity, culture, and institutions in the character and formation of nationalism and identity throughout Europe. A select team of international contributors consider various questions drawing on evidence from the majority of European countries. The book concludes with a consideration of the current relative status of the languages of Europe and how these and the identities they reflect are changing and evolving.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 512g
• ISBN-13: 9780199250851
• ISBN-10: 0199250855
• Artikelnr.: 21852413

Autorenporträt

Stephen Barbour is a lecturer in German at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. His research and teaching focus chiefly on German language and the linguistics of German, but also include sociolinguistic issues in several areas, particularly in northern Europe. His publications include Variation in German, with Patrick Stevenson (1990; German edn. 1998), and a number of papers on language and nationalism. Cathie Carmichael teaches contemporary European history at Middlesex University. A specialist in the cultural history of south-eastern Europe, she is co-author (with James Gow) of Slovenia: A Small State in the New Europe (2000), and has published articles on popular culture and travel literature. She is currently working on a history of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, which will appear in 2001.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1.: Stephen Barbour: Nationalism, Language, Europe
* 2.: Stephen Barbour: Britain and Ireland: The Varying Significance of
Language for Nationalism
* 3.: Anne Judge: France: 'One State, One Nation, One Language?'
* 4.: Clare Mar-Molinero: The Iberian Peninsula: Conflicting Linguistic
Nationalisms
* 5.: Lars S. Vikør: Northern Europe: Languages as Prime Markers of
Ethnic and National Identity
* 6.: Robert B. Howell: The Low Countries: A Study in Sharply
Contrasting Nationalisms
* 7.: Stephen Barbour: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg: The
Total Coincidence of Nations and Speech Communities?
* 8.: Carlo Ruzza: Language and Nationalism in Italy: Language as a
Weak Marker of Identity
* 9.: Barbara Törnquist-Plewa: Contrasting Ethnic Nationalisms: Eastern
Central Europe
* 10.: Cathie Carmichael: 'A People Exists and that People has its
Language': Language and Nationalism in the Balkans
* 11.: Peter Trudgill: Greece and European Turkey: From Religious to
Linguistic Identity
* 12.: Cathie Carmichael: Coming to Terms with the Past: Language and
Nationalism in Russia and its Neighbours
* 13.: Cathie Carmichael: Conclusions: Language and National Identity
in Europe
* References
* Index