Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas

A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Těšín/Cieszyn Region (Czechia)

AvPeter Jordan,Přemysl Mácha

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. The book contextualises both places within their social and political histories, and probes recent debates in the social sciences relating to place names, identity and power.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-01
Mått:148 x 210 x 39 mm
Vikt:933 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Minority Languages and Communities
Antal sidor:616
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030694876

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Peter Jordan is Honorary and Associate Professor in the Institute of Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, and Research Fellow of the University of the Free State, Faculty of the Humanities, South Africa.Přemysl Mácha is a Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia. Marika Balode is currently pursuing an MA in the Institute of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.Luděk Krtička is Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Regional Development, University of Ostrava, Czechia. Uršula Obrusník is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Pavel Pilch is Assistant Professor of Slavic Philology in the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, where he is also pursuing his PhD.Alexis Sancho Reinoso is a Researcher in the Centre for Global Change and Sustainability at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Wider Onomastic Scope of the Research Topic.- Chapter 3: The Challenges of Studying Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas.- Chapter 4: Linguistic Minorities in Austria and Czechia: Historical, Political, and Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 5: The Two Minority Situations Compared.- Chapter 6: Research Results.- Chapter 7: Comparative Interpretation of Research Results.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.