The Romance-Speaking Balkans : Language and the Politics of Identity.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (274 pages)
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture Series ; v.29 .
- Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture Series .
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.