explore the politicised nature of language in southeast europe and its use in competing nationalist state-building projects

April 29, 2023April 29, 2023 Discipline: History
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I need to analyse at least two countries from the region; Croatia and Serbia would be good, and additionally Bosnia would be nice. As for the nationalist
state-building projects, I must mention several examples from each countries like road buildings etc. It would be good if the writer could discuss this with me beforehand.


I need an answer to this question: Serbo-Croatian, one or more languages, why does it matter?

Begin with the description of multilingual
Yugoslavia, historical background.

Describe: 
Language
functions
as: 1)
mediating factor in social interaction, 2) expression of power, 3) historical
marker

Include references from Herder
and Grimm, Hobsbawm: the
invention of tradition; Renan: a process of memory and a process of forgetting;
Hall: suppressing difference in the past to create a shared past)

Importance
of language in decolonising and post-colonial projects. Invention of national
languages (Hebrew, Irish.


Mention the rising
importance of language in the period of modernisation

Compare the present with the 1990s-2000 period,
Compare the Importance of languages in the region sperately(southeast Europe) vs for the greater good Yugoslav

For references these can be used but include some other
  • Greenberg, Robert D. Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration. Oxford: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp.2-15, 159-167
  • Kapović, Mate. „Language, ideology and Politics in Croatia“. Slavia Centralis 2 (2011), pp. 45-56
  • Bugarski, Ranko. „What’s in a name: The case of Serbo-Croatian“. Revue des études  slaves 75:1 (2004), pp. 11-20
    • Daskalov, Roumen and Marinov, Tchavdar (eds.). Entangled histories of the Balkans. Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. Leiden and Boston: Brill 2013, pp. 333-522.
    • Kordić, Snježana Jezik I nacionalizam, Zagreb: Duriex, 2010 Online: http://bib.irb.hr/datoteka/475567.Jezik_i_nacionalizam.pdf  

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