Speak Up, Write Out: Language and Populism in Croatia
| Autor: | Ana Ljubojević |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Media studies 050109 social psychology 06 humanities and the arts language.human_language Nationalism Populism Public space Political science 0602 languages and literature National identity language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Ideology Minority rights Social science Serbian Sociolinguistics media_common |
| DOI: | 10.1108/s0163-786x20160000040003 |
| Popis: | The focus of this paper is a comparative case study of the symbolic role of the Croatian and Serbian languages and writing in discourses of the Nation and the National. Our research is situated at the intersection of the scientific fields of sociolinguistics, memory studies, and studies on nationalism. Using Anthony D. Smith’s ethno-symbolist approach to the study of nationalism, which focuses on the reciprocal relationship between elites and the people, we analyze the case of anti-Cyrillic protests in Vukovar, Croatia, which were triggered by the implementation of Croatian minority rights legislation. This research analyses the role of language and its use as a symbol in memory practices and accompanying discourses in Croatia and its echoes in Serbian public space. The top-down perspective observes state-promoted events and populist implications of language mis(use). Alternatively, the bottom-up approach encompasses various actions and initiatives of so-called “activists” who belong either to “nationalist” organizations or to liberal/democratic NGOs. The majority of voices that are not aligned with the above-mentioned organizations are neglected in the public space (Obradovic-Wochnik, 2013). We explore the dynamics created between social groups promoting populist ideas, other groups promoting alternative practices, and their influence on the ideological pattern adopted by ruling elites. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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