Snapshots of the Balkans through ethnographic investigation of the linguistic landscape

Canakis, Costas

doi:10.18680/hss.2016.0013

“…While English is not uncommon in commercial signs, billboards and tourist information signs in state capitals and tourist destinations, English can also be seen in smaller towns. See, for example, studies in Slovakia (Ferenčík, 2012(Ferenčík, , 2018, Croatia (Canakis, 2016;Gradečak-Erdeljić et al, 2014), Hungary (Galgoczi-Deutsch, 2011, Montenegro (Canakis, 2016) and Serbia (Canakis, 2018).…”

Section: Post-soviet Countries Of Eastern Europe and Central Asiamentioning

confidence: 99%

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Gorter¹,

Cenoz²

2023

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“…While English is not uncommon in commercial signs, billboards and tourist information signs in state capitals and tourist destinations, English can also be seen in smaller towns. See, for example, studies in Slovakia (Ferenčík, 2012(Ferenčík, , 2018, Croatia (Canakis, 2016;Gradečak-Erdeljić et al, 2014), Hungary (Galgoczi-Deutsch, 2011, Montenegro (Canakis, 2016) and Serbia (Canakis, 2018).…”

Section: Post-soviet Countries Of Eastern Europe and Central Asiamentioning

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A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Gorter,

Cenoz

2023

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“…Another promising new path in exploring linguistic realities in ex-Yugoslavia is to be found in the evolving number of recent accounts of the linguistic landscape in the Yugoslav successor states (Canakis 2016(Canakis , 2018 as human geography and different branches of political, sociocultural, and historical studies) and, hence, at exploring a given space by focusing on its linguistic features. Therefore, Linguistic Landscape Studies allow for a convincing ethnographic gaze at the value and the meaning of language in (public) space.…”

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“…For example, concepts of ethnic (and other) identity-making, national belonging, citizenship, and activism and their potential to influence people's everyday-life, clearly is a pivotal aspect of linguistic landscape research. The wars of the 1990s and the breakup of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia left deep traces in the Yugoslav successor states that can hardly stay unnoticed up until today, twenty years after the last armed conflicts took place in the region (Canakis 2016;Canakis & Kersten-Pejanić 2016). Public discourses show ongoing political irritation and uncertainties.…”

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Ethnographic accounts of linguistic issues in the Yugoslav successor states: An introduction

Kersten-Pejanić

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2019

awpel

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Doing ethnographic linguistics (or linguistic ethnography) in the area of what used to be Yugoslavia is both a challenging and a promising undertaking. Challenging, in that there are so many ideological traps to take into consideration. Promising, in that there are so many complex matters to take a closer look at. These matters, even when exclusively realized in linguistic means, may have great influence on people’s everyday political, cultural, and social meaning-making. Especially so, as indexical relations and the ideological premises and effects of choosing to use one linguistic realization over the other, has played an important role for all speech communities in the region.

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Snapshots of the Balkans through ethnographic investigation of the linguistic landscape

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A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

A Panorama of Linguistic Landscape Studies

Ethnographic accounts of linguistic issues in the Yugoslav successor states: An introduction

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