Book: Minority languages in Eastern Europe

[Scott McGinnis]

LANGUAGE, ETHNICITY AND THE STATE
Volume 2: Minority Languages in Eastern Europe Post-1989

Edited by Camille C. O'Reilly

ABOUT THE BOOK

The political and social upheavals following 1989 have had a significant
impact on the minority languages of Eastern Europe. This comprehensive
volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a
number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the
different states, and to examine the interplay of language issues,
ethnic nationalism, and processes of state formation and restructuring
in the various political and historical contexts of Central and Eastern
Europe.

KEY POINTS 

1.  Highly topical subject because of recent ethnic cleansing and forced
migrations in Eastern Europe

2.  Offers a comprehensive survey of policies and experiences in
minority language communities in the region to enable researchers to
compare developments within different states

3.  Area of growing interest because of the political imperatives and
relevance to many disciplines besides sociolinguistics, including
anthropology, sociology and politics  

CONTENTS

List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction; Minority, Languages, Ethnicity and the State in Post-1989
Eastern Europe by C. O'Reilly Language, Nationalism and the Yugoslav
Successor States by R.Greenberg Debating Language: The Bulgarian
Communities in Romania after 1989 by R. Guentcheva
>>From Irredentism to Constructive Reconciliation? Germany and its 
>Minorities
in Poland and the Czech Republic by S.Wolff
Language Ideology and Language Conflict in Post-Soviet Belarus by
C.Woolhiser The Politics of Language in Moldova by T.Hegarty Ethnic
Discrimination in Latvia by J.Dobson Language, Nation and State-building
in Ukraine: The Jewish Response by R.Golbert Bibliography Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CAMILLE O'REILLY is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Richmond, the
American International University in London.  She is the author of 'The
Irish Language in Northern Ireland: The Politics and Culture of
Identity' and of many articles on nationalism, the Irish language and
Northern Ireland

Published by Palgrave
September 2001  240 pp  216x138mm
Hardback  £45.00        $68.00  0-333-92924-1


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