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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450896703321

Autore

Greenberg Robert D (Robert David)

Titolo

Language and identity in the Balkans [[electronic resource] ] : Serbo-Croatian and its disintegration / / Robert D. Greenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-83754-3

0-19-151455-1

1-4294-6937-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.)

Disciplina

491.827

Soggetti

Serbo-Croatian language - Variation

Serbo-Croatian language - 20th century

Linguistic change - Balkan Peninsula

Nationalism - Balkan Peninsula

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Serbo-Croatian: United or not we fall; 3 Serbian: Isn't my language your language?; 4 Montenegrin: A mountain out of a mole hill?; 5 Croatian: We are separate but equal twins; 6 Bosnian: A three-humped camel?; 7 Conclusion; Appendix A: Text of the 1850 Literary Agreement; Appendix B: Text of the 1954 Novi Sad Agreement; Works cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

After Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991 Serbo-Croatian disintegrated. Using his first-hand observations before and after communism Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. - ;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 stan