Title: Words in Space and Time
Subtitle: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe
Author: Tomasz Kamusella
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ISBN: 9789633864173
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 308
Language: English
Publication date: 15 - 04 - 2022
Dimensions: 25 x 34 cm
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Discipline: History, Art History, and Archaeology
Imprint: CEU Press
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Foreword
Anngret Simms

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Languages and I

1. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, Ninth Century

2. Central Europe’s Writing Systems in the Ninth Century

3. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1050

4. Central Europe’s Writing Systems, 1050

5. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1570

6. Central Europe’s Writing Systems, 1570

7. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1721

8. Central Europe’s Writing Systems,1721

9. Europa Media anno 1721: The Latin-Language Geogrpahy of Early Modern Central Europe

10. Official Languages in Central Europe, 1721

11. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe Before the Balkan Wars

12. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 1910

13. Central Europe’s Writing Systems,1910

14. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 1910

15. Central Europe in 1910 as Seen Through the Lens of Ottoman Turkish

16. tsentral-eyrope in 1910: Yiddish Geography

17. Centra Eŭropo en 1910: Geographic and Place names in Esperanto

18. Short-lived Polities in Central Europe, 1908-1924

19. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the Balkan Wars, World War I and in the Aftermath

20. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, late 1918

21. Non-State Minority, Regional and Unrecognized Languages, and Written Dialects in Central Europe, Nineteenth Through Twenty-First Centuries

22. Linguistic Areas (Sprachbünde) in Central Europe, c 1930

23. Linguistic Areas (Sprachbünde) in Central Europe: An Alternative Classification, c 1930

24. Central Europe's Writing Systems, 1930

25. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 1931

26. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the 1930s

27. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During World War Two, 1939-1940

28. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During World War Two, 1941-1944

29. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe After World War Two, 1945–1950

30. Ethnic Cleansing in Central Europe During the Cold War, 1951-89

31. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 1974–1989

32. Moldavian and Central Europe: Еуропа Чентралэ ын анул 1980 (Europa centrală in anul 1980)

33. Dialect Continua in Central Europe, c 2009

34. Central Europe's Writing Systems, 2009

35. Central Europe's Writing Systems in 2009 and the Past

36. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, 2009

37. Management of Difference: Borders and Multiethnic Regions in Contemporary Central Europe

38. Management of Difference: Multiethnic Regions in Contemporary Central Europe

39. Central Europe's Universities with Other Media of Instruction than the State or National Language, 2009

40. Roma Settlements in Central Europe, 2009

41. Mitelojropa w 2009: The Silesian Language and Central Europe

42. Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State in Central Europe, and in East and Southeast Asia, 2009

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Tomasz Kamusella

Words in Space and Time

A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe

With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time.

The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a “proper” nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups.

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