LINGUIST List 13.650

Fri Mar 8 2002

Books: Sociolinguistics

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

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1. Barnett Polly, FW: New book: Language, Ethnicity and the State (volume 2)

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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