O’Reilly Camille C. (ed.) Language, Ethnicity and the State. Volume 2: Minority Languages in Eastern Europe Post-1989

Palgrave Macmillan 2001. — xii, 228 p. — ISBN 0–333–92924–1.The political and social upheavals following 1989 have had a significant impact on the minority languages of Eastern Europe. There have been attempts at enlightened treatment of minority linguistic groups in some of the new states but in others such groups have been openly oppressed. This volume draws on sociologically and ethnographically oriented work from a number of disciplines to allow the reader to compare developments in the different states, and to examine the interplay of language issues, ethnic nationalism, and processes of state formation and restructuring in the various political and historical contexts of Central and Eastern Europe. A companion volume (0-333-92925-X) examines the status of minority languages in the European Union.Introduction: Minority Languages, Ethnicity and the State in Post-1989 Eastern Europe
Language, Nationalism and the Yugoslav Successor States
The joint language tradition for Serbs and Croats
The languages of the Yugoslav successor states
Case study: language identity in Montenegro
Debating Language: The Bulgarian Communities in Romania after 1989
In a quest for power: profession – Bulgarian
The multiple faces of the mother tongue
The histories of the Banat Bulgarians
From Irredentism to Constructive Reconciliation? Germany and its Minorities in Poland and the Czech Republic
Ethnicity and territory: the triangular relationship
between external minority, host-state and kin-state
The origins of German minority groups in Poland and the Czech Republic
The German minority between 1945 and 1990
The Federal Republic’s external minority policy before and after 1990
Germany’s relationship with Czech Republic after 1990: reconciliation at whose expense?
Germany’s relationship with Poland after 1990: the great success story?
The influence of the expellee organizations: waxing or waning?
Caught between the big players? Today’s German minority in the Czech Republic and Poland
Language Ideology and Language Conflict in Post-Soviet BelarusLanguage ideology: approaches and levels of analysis
Language policy in Belarus, 1985–99 (a brief sketch)
Elite language ideologies in Belarus
The ideologization of linguistic structure in the
Belarusian–Russian language conflict
Non-elite language attitudes and ideologies
Norms of language use as an expression of language ideologies
The Politics of Language in Moldova
The land and languages of Moldova
The language situation of Russian Bessarabia
Bessarabians find their voices
Bessarabia as a province of Romania
The Soviet effort to construct a new Moldovan language
The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Moldovan Language
The Moldovan language in the age of perestroika
The politics of language in the Republic of Moldova
The future of the politics of language in Moldova
Ethnic Discrimination in LatviaEthnic distribution
Citizenship, naturalization and employment
Languages and language legislation
The language of education
Ethnic segmentation in the labour market
Ethnic strategy
Language, Nation and State-building in Ukraine: the Jewish ResponseThe symbolism of language
Ethnographic locality
Language and nationalism in theoretical perspective
Strategies of cultural accommodation and manipulation
An alternative view of the nation