Language and Nationalism in Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925085-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

This book examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities in Europe. It considers the way in which language politics may sometimes reinforce national identity (as in France), or sometimes tend to undermine the nation-state (as in Spain). After an introduction describing the interactive roles of language, ethnicity, culture, and institutions in the character and formation of nationalism and national identity, the book considers their different manifestations throughout Europe.

This is an accessible investigation of a subject of perennial importance in European culture and politics. It will be of equal interest to political scientists, historians, and sociolinguists. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barbour, Stephen

Carmichael, Cathie

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.