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This second edition is vastly improved, reflecting all the geographic-political changes of the last 10 years. New features include: more than 2,300 new annotations (in addition to 5,200 from the first edition), the addition of diacritics, new hierarchical listings in each geographic section for easier access of information, subject listings within each geographic region. The annotations are arranged by country and subject area, and comprehensive author and title indexes round out this work.
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This book analyzes the creation of languages across the Slavophone areas of the world and their deployment for political projects and identity building, mainly after 1989. It offers perspectives from a number of disciplines such as sociolinguistics, socio-political history and language policy. Languages are artefacts of culture, meaning they are created by people. They are often used for identity building and maintenance, but in Central and Eastern Europe they became the basis of nation building and national statehood maintenance. The recent split of the Serbo-Croatian language in the wake of the break-up of Yugoslavia amply illustrates the highly politicized role of languages in this region...