On the Inadequacy of the Ethnic/Civic Antinomy

The Language Politics of Bulgarian Nationalism

Bibliographic Data

ID11047235
AuthorsAlex Toshkov (Columbia University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume37
Issue3
Pages277-298
Publication date2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNationalities Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-5992 • E-ISSN: 1465-3923
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/00905990902865540
OpenAlexW1978070627
LanguageEN
References cited27

Introduction The significance of language and literature as formative to national identity is a major trope within studies of nationalism. The act of imagining and realizing a nation and a nation-state along these lines has been tackled from multiple angles including folklore, linguistics, historical studies of educational institutions and their curricula, with a prominent place reserved for textbook analysis. Even though historical studies for the most part have underscored the rapidity and novelty of these processes, a temporal claim that is part and parcel of the larger and fundamental assertion that nationalism is a modern phenomenon, these processes are negotiated over a period of decades. In Braudelian terms, the standardization of a national language would fall somewhere between conjoncture and événement

Aesthetics · Antinomy · Linguistics · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Trope (literature · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy

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