book notice: Language and Identity in the Balkans: Greenberg

[Harold Schiffman]

Language and Identity in the Balkans: Greenberg


 Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and its Disintegration
Published: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
                http://www.oup.com/us

Author: Robert D. Greenberg

Abstract:

Against a backdrop of the ethnic strife in the Balkans and the collapse of
Yugoslavia in 1991, 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. His
first-hand observations before and after Communism offer insights into the
nature of language change and the relation between language and identity.

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