Politics and the Slavic Languages (Routledge Hi, Kamusella..

Taylor & Francis

Politics and the Slavic LanguagesAuthor(s): Tomasz Kamusella\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367569846, 978-0367569846\nSynopsis\nDuring the last two centuries, ethnolinguistic nationalism has been the norm of nation building and state building in Central Europe. The number of recognized Slavic languages (in line with the normative political formula of language = nation = state) gradually tallied with the number of the Slavic nation-states, especially after the breakups of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. But in the current age of borderless cyberspace, regional and minority Slavic languages are freely standardized and used, even when state authorities disapprove. As a result, since the turn of the 19th century, the number of Slavic languages has varied widely, from a single Slavic language to as many as 40.\n\nThrough the story of Slavic languages, this timely book illustrates that decisions on .