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Central and Eastern Europe
Common Language
Cyrillic
Cyrillic Alphabet
Czech
Demarcation Line
digital language variation
Eastern Belarus
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Ethnolinguistic nationalism
Imperialism
Internet Language
Kashubia
language identity internet central europe
Language Ideology
language policy central europe
Latin Alphabet
Linguistic Function
linguistic nationalism studies
Microlanguages
minority language rights
Moser 2016a
Nation building
Philology
Pluricentric Language
postcommunist societies
Regional languages
Russian Language
Serbo Croatian Language
Serbo-Croat
Silesian Nationality
Slavic
Social Media Text
sociolinguistic change
Sorbs
Soviet Belarus
Standard Ukrainian
Statehood formation
Western Belarus
White Cells
Young Man
Youth NGO

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032559988
  • Weight: 460g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 06 May 2025
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

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 statehood in today’s Central Europe. The collection’s focus is on the last three decades, namely the postcommunist period, taking into consideration the effects of the recent rise of cyberspace and the resulting radical forms of populism across contemporary Central Europe. It analyzes languages and their uses not as given by history, nature, or deity but as constructs produced, changed, maintained, and abandoned by humans and their groups. In this way, the volume contributes saliently to the store of knowledge on the latest social (sociolinguistic) and political history of the region’s languages, including their functioning in respective national polities and on the internet.

Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires is a compelling resource for historians, linguists, and political scientists who work on Central and Eastern Europe.
About

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).