Do languages cause borders or do borders cause languages? This volume in the Current Issues in Language and Society series attempts to situate the debate on language policies in Southeastern Europe within the larger debate in social sciences and humanities on the issues of borders and the formation of national identities.
Table of Content
1 Brigitta Busch and Helen Kelly-Holmes: Language Boundaries as Social, Political and Discursive Constructs
2 Dubravko Škiljan: A Linguist on the Train to Vienna
3 Ranko Bugarski: Language and Boundaries in the Yugoslav Context
4 Dona Kolar-Panov: Troubled Multicultural Broadcasting in Macedonia
5 Debate
6 Tatiana Zhurzhenko: Language, Ethnicity and Cultural Boundaries in Ukraine: A Response to the Papers and Debate
7 Marija Mitrović: Language, Borders, Identity: A Response to Ranko Bugarski
8 Melitta Richter Malabotta: Semantics of War in Former Yugoslavia: A Response to the Papers and Debate
About the author
Brigitta Busch is an applied linguist. She works and teaches at Vienna University and is also affiliated to Stellenbosch University (South Africa). In 2009 she was granted a Berta-Karlik research professorship for excellent female scientists by the University of Vienna. She has also been working for many years as an expert for the Council of Europe’s Confidence-Building Measures Programme and was a member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Her main interests focus on: sociolinguistics, multilingualism, biographic approaches in linguistics (http://www.heteroglossia.net)
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