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oapen-20.500.12657-525682023-03-22T08:10:10Z Words in Space and Time Kamusella, Tomasz Ethnolinguistics, Nation states, Language politics, Nationalism, Sociolinguistics, Areal linguistics bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFB Sociolinguistics bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology 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. 2022-01-25T10:16:42Z 2022-01-25T10:16:42Z 2021 book 9789633864173 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52568 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789633864180.pdf Central European University Press 10.7829/9789633864180 10.7829/9789633864180 5427f84f-0815-48ff-aac8-56f6200fccab 32b67c16-7387-40c4-b2d0-66bb8374accc Knowledge Unlatched 9789633864173 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 303 Budapest CEU Press - Opening the future open access
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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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