Languages and Space-Related Identity: The Rise and Fall of Serbo-Croatian

The relationship of language and spatial identity in historical geography research: a review of (multi)disciplinary approaches

“…During the 20 th century, research was published on the origin, development, and peculiarities of languages with a large number of speakers (de Carvalho, 1962;Tyler, 1964;Hess, 2009) and minority languages functioning within a larger linguistic area, such as research of Welsh in the UK (Williams, 1950;Aitchison and Carter, 1985;1994) and Gaelic (Withers, 1984;Campbell, 1945), the indigenous Kichwa language in Ecuador (Knapp, 2019), and the Huastec dialect in Mexico (Melendez Guadarrama, 2018). Contemporary language research mainly deals with language areas that are read from semantic maps (Siebenhutter, 2018), and environmental (Lawson and Kingsley, 2018), religious (Siebenhutter, 2019) sada su provedena za velški jezik u Londonu (Segrott, 2011), irski u Irskoj ( Johnson, 1992), ukrajinski u Ukrajini (Kulyk, 2019) i "srpsko-hrvatski" u Jugoslaviji (Greenberg, 2005;Jordan, 2018). Prisutna su i istraživanja nešto manjega opsega za njemački (Brešan Ančić, 2015) i talijanski jezik (Balenović i Klobučar, 2011) na području pojedinih hrvatskih regija, koja obrađuju različita razdoblja te ulaze u historijskogeografski okvir.…”

“…Blacheove posibilističke postavke kasnije je djelomično preuzeo američki geograf 2019). Linguistic-identity surveys were conducted for Welsh in London (Segrott, 2011), Irish in Ireland ( Johnson, 1992), Ukrainian in Ukraine (Kulyk, 2019), and Serbo-Croatian in Yugoslavia (Greenberg;2005, Jordan, 2018. There is also less-extensive research of German (Brešan Ančić, 2015) and Italian in certain Croatian regions (Balenović and Klobučar, 2011), which cover different time periods within the historical-geographical framework.…”

“…Johnson (1992) explored the role of language and education in the national awakening process. Linguistic-identity research of the Croatian area was conducted by Greenberg (2005) and Jordan (2018) who analyzed the disintegration of the Serbo-Croatian language and its influence on identity formation. Furthermore, Balenović and Klobučar (2011) analyzed the cultural contact of the Italian and Croatian languages, and Brešan Ančić ( 2015) investigated the role of the German language in the political life of Dalmatia at the beginning of the 20 th century and attitudes regarding the aspiration of Croatians for the introduction of the official Croatian language.…”

“…The relationship of language and spatial identity in historical geography research: a review of (multi) disciplinary approaches na objekt istraživanja među historijskogeografskim radovima izdvajaju 3 klastera -jezični, identitetski i jezično-identitetski. Jezični klaster čine istraživanja koja kroz historijskogeografsku prizmu uglavnom sagledavaju jezični pejzaž (Coupland, 2010;Grbavac, 2013;Gradečak-Erdeljić i Zlomislić, 2014;Melendez Guadarrama, 2018;Kehrein, 2019), identitetski klaster čine istraživanja koja se na razne načine bave istraživanjima prostornih (regionalnih) identiteta (Šakaja, 2003;Fuerst-Bjeliš, 2011;Vukosav i Fuerst-Bjeliš, 2015;Fuerst-Bjeliš i Vukosav, 2018), a jezično-identitetski klaster čine istraživanja međuodnosa jezika i identiteta u nekom prostoru, u točno određenom prošlom razdoblju (Segrott, 2001;Greenberg, 2005;Scoti Jurić 2007;Šakić i Kotrla, 2007;Melnytska, 2016;Jordan, 2018).…”

“…Karte su važan izvor historijskogeografskih istraživanja jer razvoj Hrvatske prikazuju kroz prostornu i vremensku odrednicu te tako svjedoče o značenju hrvatskih 3 clusters stand out among historical-geographical works-language, identity, and language-identity. The language cluster consists of research that, in a historical-geographic light, mainly looks at the language landscape (Coupland, 2010;Grbavac, 2013;Gradečak-Erdeljić and Zlomislić, 2014;Melendez Guadarrama, 2018;Kehrain, 2019), and the identity cluster consists of research that deals with spatial (regional) identity research in various ways (Šakaja, 2003;Fuerst-Bjeliš, 2011;Vukosav and Fuerst-Bjeliš, 2015;Fuerst-Bjeliš and Vukosav, 2018), while the language-identity cluster consists of research on the relationship between language and identity in a given space, during a specific period in the past (Segrott, 2001;Greenberg, 2005;Scoti Jurić 2007;Šakić and Kotrla, 2007;Melnytska, 2016;Jordan, 2018).…”