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dc.contributor.authorKamusella, Tomasz
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-25T10:16:42Z
dc.date.available2022-01-25T10:16:42Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52568
dc.description.abstractWith 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.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFB Sociolinguisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropologyen_US
dc.subject.otherEthnolinguistics, Nation states, Language politics, Nationalism, Sociolinguistics, Areal linguisticsen_US
dc.titleWords in Space and Timeen_US
dc.title.alternativeA Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europeen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.7829/9789633864180en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy5427f84f-0815-48ff-aac8-56f6200fccaben_US
oapen.relation.isFundedBy32b67c16-7387-40c4-b2d0-66bb8374acccen_US
oapen.relation.isFundedByKnowledge Unlatched
oapen.relation.isbn9789633864173en_US
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.pages303en_US
oapen.place.publicationBudapesten_US


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