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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824965403321

Autore

Selvelli Giustina

Titolo

The alphabet of discord : the ideologization of writing systems on the Balkans since the breakup of multiethnic empires / / Giustina Selvelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stuttgart : , : Ibidem Verlag, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-8382-7537-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 pages)

Collana

Balkan Politics and Society ; ; Volume 8

Disciplina

491.8

Soggetti

Slavic languages - Writing

Slavic languages - Writing - Political aspects

Balkan Peninsula Languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- PREFACE -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- 1.  INTRODUCTION -- 1.1  The Balkan space between problems of multiplicity and claims of homogeneity -- 1.2  The role of writing and of the "Other" in  the national discourse -- 1.3  Methodological considerations: sources and approaches -- 1.4  Semiotic and relational aspects of alphabets and nationalism -- SECTION I. ALPHABETIC DISPUTES OF THE 1920s AND 1930s IN  BULGARIA -- 2.  THE RECEPTION OF THE ABECEDAR PRIMER (1925) IN BULGARIA -- 2.1  Issues related to the adoption of new writing systems -- 2.2  Post-imperial national identity dynamics -- 2.3  The situation in Aegean Macedonia after  World War I -- 2.4  The publication of the Abecedar (1925) -- 2.5  Some peculiarities related to the characters of the Abecedar -- 2.6  The "involvement" of Cyril and Methodius -- 2.7  Conclusions: the fate of the Abecedar  after 1925 -- 3.  THE "LATINIZATION" IDEOLOGY AND THE BULGARIAN DEBATES -- 3.1  Introduction: issues of script change -- 3.2  The Latinization ideology in the Soviet Union -- 3.3  The Latin alphabet as a "modernizing" tool in  the Balkans -- 3.4  The positions in support of Latinization in Bulgaria -- 3.5  The positions in defense of Cyrillic: contextual and internal factors -- 3.6  Defensive and symbolic motivations  rejecting Latinization -- 3.7  Technical imperfections of the Latin alphabet -- 3.8  Conclusions: the national character of the



alphabet -- 4.  THE CONTRAST BETWEEN  ARABIC AND LATIN SCRIPTS  AMONG THE BULGARIAN TURKS -- 4.1  The impact of the Eurasian alphabet reforms on Turkey -- 4.2  The ambivalent status of the Latin alphabet in Bulgaria -- 4.3  Language and script restrictions for the Turks  of Bulgaria -- 4.4  Conclusions: the disruption of writing practices -- SECTION II. SCRIPT ISSUES IN THE  "SERBO-CROATIAN TERRITORIES" IN THE  INTERWAR PERIOD.

5.  SERBO-CROATIAN IN TWO SCRIPTS:  DIGRAPHIA, "ALPHABET SYNTHESIS" AND BILITERACY -- 5.1  Linguistic and historical introduction -- 5.2  Post-war alphabet ideologies: four parallel trends -- 5.3  The influence of the "pro-Latinization" factors -- 5.4  The first proposals of "alphabet synthesis" appearing in Život i rad -- 5.5  The "Yugoslav alphabet" by Pavle Ž. Radivojević -- 5.6  Reactions to the "mixed alphabet" proposals -- 5.7  Živaljević's rejection of the Yugoslav alphabet and Trivunac's defense of Cyrillic -- 5.8  Conclusions: the developments of the  alphabet question in Yugoslavia -- 6.  CYRILLIC AT WAR: SCRIPT IDEOLO-GIES IN THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA, 1941-1945 -- 6.1  From unitarian ideologies to assertions of difference in the language field -- 6.2  The development of the language situation before the NDH -- 6.3  "Cyrillicide" in the Independent State of Croatia -- 6.4  Writing ideologies between purism and denialism -- 6.5  The "Orientality" of the Serbs and the role of  the Glagolitic alphabet -- SECTION III. FROM THE GLAGOLITIC REVIVAL TO THE NEW DISCRIMINATIONS AGAINST CYRILLIC IN CROATIA -- 7.  THE REDISCOVERY OF GLAGOLITIC:  FROM REGIONAL TO NATIONAL PHENOMENON -- 7.1  The new signification context of the Glagolitic alphabet -- 7.2  The alphabet issue during the period of  socialist Yugoslavia -- 7.3  The creation of the Aleja Glagoljaša in Istria and the role of Zvane Črnja -- 7.4  The rebellious and democratic character of  Glagolitic -- 7.5  The universal value of regional Istrian culture -- 7.6  The Glagolitic as a marker of continuity and prestige after the end of Yugoslavia -- 7.7  The institutionalization of the Glagolitic alphabet by the Croatian state -- 7.8  Glagolitic as a national symbol in an "exclusivist" sense -- 8.  THE MODIFIED STATUS OF CYRILLIC IN POST-SOCIALIST CROATIA AND SERBIA.

8.1  Introduction: Issues of biscriptality -- 8.2  The first changes in the status of the Cyrillic alphabet -- 8.3  The Serbian case: will bialphabetism survive? -- 8.4  The destruction of allographic traditions -- 8.5  Croatian reactions to the bialphabetic plaques in Vukovar -- 8.6  The Serb minority in Croatia as the "Other" -- 8.7  The relevance of the public writing context -- 8.8  The multigraphic character of the Croatian writing tradition -- 8.9  Conclusions: patterns of symmetrical differentiation -- SECTION IV, THE NEW CHALLENGES OF  CYRILLIC IN BULGARIA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM -- 9.  BULGARIAN CYRILLIC BETWEEN TRADITION AND MODERNITY:  THE "KRONSTEINER AFFAIR" -- 9.1  Introduction: the post-socialist ideological context in Bulgaria -- 9.2  The first debates on writing issues in the late 1990s -- 9.3  The origins of the "Kronsteiner affair" -- 9.4  Bulgarian Cyrillic between "Europhilia" and "Russophilia" -- 9.5  The issue of alphabetic coexistence in the European context of pluralism -- 9.6  Cyrillic as a "communist" alphabet -- 9.7  Bulgarian institutions against Kronsteiner -- 9.8  Further reactions in the periodical and  scientific press -- 9.9  Moderate positions on opening to the Latin alphabet -- 9.10 Conclusions: open issues of transliteration -- 10.  THE POPULAR DIMENSION OF  THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET AND  THE REDISCOVERY OF GLAGOLITIC -- 10.1 The "Kronsteiner effect" -- 10.2  Cyrillic and modern technologies -- 10.3  The link between Cyrillic and capitalism and the Bulgarian typefaces -- 10.4  The popularization of Cyrillic and



the  May 24 celebration -- 10.5  Conclusions: the revitalization of Glagolitic and "ethnogenetic" questions -- 11.  FINAL NOTES -- 11.1  The relevance of the post-imperial and post-socialist factors -- 11.2  The symbolic dimension of the alphabet in the Balkans -- 12.  LIST OF REFERENCES -- Primary Sources.

Official Legislative Sources -- Secondary Sources.