Language, Identity and Conflict: A Comparative Study of Language in Ethnic Conflict in Europe and EurasiaThis innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the limitations in the fields of linguistics and political science. Using examples of language policy and planning in conflict situations, it examines the functions of language as a marker of identity in ethnic conflict, and the extent to which language may be a causal factor in ethnic conflict. |
Contents
| 1929 | |
Ethnic identity | 1950 |
Language in ethnicity | 1976 |
Histories and geographies of the nationstate | 1928 |
Language and ethnic frontiers | 1955 |
Map mythology and environment | 1975 |
Virtuality and propinquity | 1994 |
Language movements ethnic mobilisation and the state | 1916 |
Language conflict and language in conflict | 1932 |
Beyond conflict | 1949 |
comparative issues in extraEuropean théâtres | 1985 |
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