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Publication details [#30708]

Levinger, Jasna. 1994. Language war-war language. Language Sciences 16 (2) : 229–236.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conflict | ethnicity | language for special purposes | language variation | political discussion

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0388-0001

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper explores how, within the former Yugoslavia of the past 20 years, politicians and the media introduced linguistic divisions to emphasize ethnicity and promote partisanship.