The Romance-Speaking Balkans : Language and the Politics of Identity.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Notes on Editors -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. From Rashi to Cyrillic: Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish (Judezmo) Texts in Cyrillic (Studemund-Halévy) -- ‎Chapter 2. Political Terror and Repressed Aromanian Core Identity: Ways to Re-assert and Develop Ethnolinguistic Identity (Mamali) -- ‎Chapter 3. Sociolinguistic Relations and Return Migration: Italian in the Republic of Moldova (Weirich) -- ‎Chapter 4. Between Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Familial Memory: Identity Dilemmas among the Eastern Romance Communities of the Balkan Peninsula (Nowicka) -- ‎Chapter 5. Identity Constructions among the Members of the Aromanian Community in the Korçë Area (Stoica) -- ‎Chapter 6. Megleno-Romanians in the Serbian Banat: Colonization and Assimilation (Măran) -- ‎Chapter 7. Nation-State Ideology and Identity and Language Rights of Linguistic Minorities: Prospects for the Vlashki/Zheyanski-Speaking Communities (Vrzić) -- ‎Chapter 8. "What Language Do We Speak?" The Bayash in the Balkans and Mother Tongue Education (Sorescu-Marinković) -- ‎Chapter 9. Performing Vlach-ness Online: The Enregisterment of Vlach Romanian on Facebook (Huțanu) -- ‎Index.

This volume investigates the complex relationship between language and identity of the peoples speaking Romance languages in the Balkans, offering a thorough sociolinguistic and anthropological account on this crossroads region.

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