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

• Autore: Greenberg Robert D (Robert David)
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Disciplina: 491.827
• Soggetto topico: Serbo-Croatian language - Variation; Serbo-Croatian language - 20th century; Linguistic change - Balkan Peninsula; Nationalism - Balkan Peninsula
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Language and identity in the Balkans
• ISBN: 1-280-83754-3; 0-19-151455-1; 1-4294-6937-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450896703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II