Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration

ISBN-13: 9780199258154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 200 str.

Robert D. Greenberg

Opis

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.

Recenzje

BEST BOOK IN SLAVIC LINGUISTICS 2005, awarded by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. liThe detailed exposition and copious citation of relevant scholarly literature in many languages, together with the eminently readable text providing a masterful summation of a unique constellation of sociolinguistic phenomena, suggest that the book will become a classic reference for those who wish to study the dramatic rise and fall of the language-formerly-known-as-Serbo-Croatian.r

O autorze

Robert Greenberg is Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1991 where he taught 1991-1992. He then taught at Georgetown University before taking up his current position in 1994.