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Language and Identity in the Balkans

Robert D. Greenberg
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      Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four mutually unintelligible languages within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened. Basing his account on first-hand observations in the region before and since the communist demise, he evokes the drama andemotional discord as different factions sought to exploit, prevent, exacerbate, accelerate or just to make sense of the chaotic and unpredictable language situation. His fascinating account offers insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity. It also providesa uniquely vivid perspective on nationalism and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia.The new in paperback edition of this award-winning book includes new material covering the significant developments in the region since the book's first publication in 2004.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert D. Greenberg EAN: 9780199208753 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 357 g HEIGHT: 232 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-07-31 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Serbian & Croatian, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Serbo-Croatian, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 2000 to c 2009, Sociolinguistics, Ethnic studies, Nationalism

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      Robert Greenberg is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1991 where he taught 1991-1992. He then taught at Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before taking up his current position in 2003.
      Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it. But the break-up of the Serbo-Croat language into four mutually unintelligible languages within a decade is, by any previous standard of linguistic behaviour, extraordinary. Robert Greenberg describes how it happened. Basing his account on first-hand observations in the region before and since the communist demise, he evokes the drama andemotional discord as different factions sought to exploit, prevent, exacerbate, accelerate or just to make sense of the chaotic and unpredictable language situation. His fascinating account offers insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity. It also providesa uniquely vivid perspective on nationalism and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia.The new in paperback edition of this award-winning book includes new material covering the significant developments in the region since the book's first publication in 2004.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert D. Greenberg EAN: 9780199208753 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 357 g HEIGHT: 232 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-07-31 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Serbian & Croatian, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Serbo-Croatian, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 2000 to c 2009, Sociolinguistics, Ethnic studies, Nationalism

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      Robert Greenberg is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1991 where he taught 1991-1992. He then taught at Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before taking up his current position in 2003.

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