Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires

<p>This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created legitimized maintained or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe.</p><p>Through chapters from contributors in North America Europe and Asia the book offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the rise of the ethnolinguistic nation-state during the past century as the sole legitimate model of statehood in today’s Central Europe. The collection’s focus is on the last three decades namely the postcommunist period taking into consideration the effects of the recent rise of cyberspace and the resulting radical forms of populism across contemporary Central Europe. It analyzes languages and their uses not as given by history nature or deity but as constructs produced changed maintained and abandoned by humans and their groups. In this way the volume contributes saliently to the store of knowledge on the latest social (sociolinguistic) and political history of the region’s languages including their functioning in respective national polities and on the internet.</p><p>Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires is a compelling resource for historians linguists and political scientists who work on Central and Eastern Europe.</p>