Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration

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OUP Oxford, 25. ožu 2004. - Broj stranica: 200
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-Croatian language into four languages on the path towards mutual unintelligibility 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 and emotional discord as different factions sought to exploit, prevent, exacerbate, accelerate or just 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 provides a uniquely vivid perspective on nationalism and identity politics in the former Yugoslavia.
 

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1 Introduction
1
United or not we fall
16
Isnt my language your language?
58
A mountain out of a mole hill?
88
We are separate but equal twins
109
A threehumped camel?
135
7 Conclusion
159
Text of the 1850 Literary Agreement
168
Text of the 1954 Novi Sad Agreement
172
Works cited
175
Index
183
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O autoru (2004)

Robert Greenberg is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1991 where he taught 1991-1992. He then taught at Georgetown University before taking up his current position in 1994.

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