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Author Almasi, Gabor

Title Latin at the crossroads of identity : the evolution of linguistic nationalism in the kingdom of hungary
Published Leiden : Brill, 2015

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Series Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context, 1877-8550 ; v. 5
Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 5.
Contents Introduction / Gab́or Almaśi and Lav Su̦baric ́ -- PART A. THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE. When language became ideology : Hungary in the eighteenth century / Istvań Margoćsy -- Which language and which nation? : mother tongue and political languages : insights from a pamphlet published in 1790 / Henrik Honich -- "Hungarus consciousness" in the age of early nationalism / Ambrus Miskolczy -- Before and after 1773 : Central European Jesuits, the politics of language and discourses of identity in the late eighteenth-century Habsburg Monarchy / Per Pippin Aspaas and Laśzlo ́Kontler -- PART 2. DILEMMA OF LATIN IN EDUCATION AND MEDIA. The Enlightenment's choice of Latin : the ratio educationis of 1777 in the Kingdom of Hungary / Teodora Shek Brnardic ́ -- The long road of Hungarian media to multilingualism : on the replacement of Latin in the Kingdom of Hungary in the course of the eighteenth century / Andrea Seidler -- The language question and the paradoxes of Latin journalism in eighteenth-century Hungary / Piroska Balogh -- PART 3. THE OTHER HUNGARIANS. From the aftermath of 1784 to the Illyrian turn : the slow demise of the official Latin in Croatia / Lav Su̦baric ́ -- The Latin speeches in the Croatian parliament : collective and personal identities / Zvjezdana Sikiric ́Assouline -- Latin as the panslavonic language, 1790-1848 / Alexander Maxwell -- Latin and vernacular relations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : the Serbian case / Nenad Ristovic ́ -- Romans, Romanians and Latin-speaking Hungarians : the Latin language in the Hungarian-Romanian intellectual discourse of the eighteenth and nineteenth century / Levente Nagy
Summary "From the late 18th century in multi-ethnic Kingdom of Hungary, new language-based national identities came to dominate over those that had previously been constructed on legal, territorial, or historical basis. While Hungarian language struggled to emancipate itself, the roles and functions of Latin (official language until 1844) were changing dramatically. Latin held a different significance for varying segments of society, from being the essential part of an individual identity to representing an obstacle to "national survival", from guaranteeing harmony between the different linguistic communities to hindering change, social and political justice. This pioneering volume aims to highlight the ways language debates about Latin and Hungarian contributed to the creation of new identities and ideologies in Central Europe. Contributors include Gab́or Almaśi, Per Pippin Aspaas, Piroska Balogh, Henrik Hon̈ich, Laśzlo ́Kontler, Istvań Margoćsy, Alexander Maxwell, Ambrus Miskolczy, Levente Nagy, Nenad Ristovic, ́ Andrea Seidler, Teodora Shek Brnardic, ́ Zvjezdana Sikiric ́Assouline, and Lav Su̦baric"́-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Language policy -- Hungary
Latin language.
Language, Universal.
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
National characteristics, Hungarian.
Hungarian language.
Linguistic minorities -- Hungary
Language and history.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Civilization.
Hungarian language.
Intellectual life.
Language and history.
Language and languages -- Political aspects.
Language policy.
Language, Universal.
Latin language.
Linguistic minorities.
National characteristics, Hungarian.
SUBJECT Hungary -- Civilization -- 18th century
Hungary -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Subject Hungary.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9004300872
9789004300873