Publications

Publication details [#56440]

Bugarski, Ranko. 2012. Language, identity and borders in the former Serbo-Croatian area. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33 (3) : 219–235.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | identity negotiation | language attitude | language politics | language use

Language as a subject

Serbo-Croatian

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This case study of former Yugoslavia emphasizes the role of language in collective identity construction and ethnic boundary construction in relation to political borders, focusing especially on Serbo-Croatian.