Polylingual Nationalism in East-Central Europe and the Balkans : reviving a forgotten history

Maxwell, Alexander (avtor), Stergar, Rok (avtor)

Polylingual nationalism refers to national concepts that imagine more than one language asintegral to the titular national community. In East-Central Europe and the Balkans, polylingualnationalism has not been a focus of comparative or theoretical research, since nationalist his-toriographies have instead emphasized the link between nations and languages, conflatinglinguistic revival efforts with the so-called “national revival” of the 19th century. Nevertheless,patriots in East-Central Europe and the Balkans have also imagined various national conceptsso that the nation encompassed speakers of different languages. This article traces key devel-opments in the history of polylingual nationalism in the region. It suggests that the success ofethnolinguistic nationalism was contingent. Writing polylingual nationalism back into theregion’s history offers a fuller picture of how competing loyalties interacted and why today’snationalisms ultimately took the forms that they did.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: nationalism, languages, multilingualism, Central Europe, Balkans
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.02 - Pregledni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FF - Filozofska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Datum objave: 10.08.2026
• Leto izida: 2026
• Št. strani: Str. 1-20
• Številčenje: Vol.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-185671
• UDK: 323.1(4-191.2)"18"
• ISSN pri članku: 1557-2986
• DOI: 10.1080/13537113.2026.2690751
• COBISS.SI-ID: 287959299
• Datum objave v RUL: 17.08.2026

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Nationalism and ethnic politics
• Založnik: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• ISSN: 1557-2986
• COBISS.SI-ID: 521643801

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: nacionalizmi, jeziki, večjezičnost, Srednja Evropa, Balkan

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P6-0235-2022
• Naslov: Slovenska zgodovina