@article{1437518,
      recid = {1437518},
      author = {Ajšic, Adnan,},
      title = {Language and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central  Balkans : a corpus-based approach /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {This book uses a specialized corpus of public  language-related discourse to investigate links between  language ideologies and ethnonationalism in contemporary  West Central Balkans. Despite a century and a half of  shared linguistic history, the nations making up the  central part of former Yugoslavia continue to debate the  ownership over the common language, creating much  animosity, some legal issues, and often absurd  circumstances. At the heart of the ongoing language debate  over Central South Slavic is the belief in language as the  cornerstone of ethnonational identity and the legitimacy of  ethnic groups claims to sovereignty. Given a history of  conflict and the recent resurgence in extreme  ethnonationalism, an understanding of ethnolinguistic  contestation in the region is as important as ever. This  book will be of interest to social scientists working in  fields as diverse as (applied) linguistics, anthropology,  media studies, political science, sociology and history, as  well as other scholars with an interest in language and  society. Adnan Ajsic is Assistant Professor of English at  the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.  His writing has appeared in Applied Linguistics, Corpora,  Journal of Language and Politics, Language Policy, and  Times Higher Education as well as volumes published by  Routledge, Wiley-Blackwell, and Multilingual Matters. He  has served as an interpreter/translator for the United  Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former  Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, the Netherlands.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1437518},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72177-0},
}