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The Habsburg Empire often features in scholarship as a historical example of how language diversity and linguistic competence were essential to the functioning of the imperial state. Focusing critically on the urban-rural divide, on the importance of status for multilingual competence, on local governments, schools, the army and the urban public sphere, and on linguistic policies and practices in transition, this collective volume provides further evidence for both the merits of how language diversity was managed in Austria-Hungary and the problems and contradictions that surrounded those practices. The book includes contributions by Pieter M. Judson, Marta Verginella, Rok Stergar, Anamarija Lukić, Carl Bethke, Irina Marin, Ágoston Berecz, Csilla Fedinec, István Csernicskó, Matthäus Wehowski, Jan Fellerer, and Jeroen van Drunen.

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Author:   Markian Prokopovych ,  Carl Bethke ,  Tamara Scheer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.581kg
ISBN:  

9789004402102

ISBN 10:   9004402101
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   01 August 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors 1 Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors Markian Prokopovych, Carl Bethke, and Tamara Scheer 2 Encounters with Language Diversity in Late Habsburg Austria Pieter M. Judson 3 The Fight for the National Linguistic Primacy: Testimonies from the Austrian Littoral Marta Verginella 4 The Evolution of Linguistic Policies and Practices of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in the Era of Ethnic Nationalisms: the Case of Ljubljana-Laibach Rok Stergar 5 Language Transition in the Town of Osijek at the End of Austro-Hungarian Rule (1902-1913) Anamarija Lukic 6 The Bosnische Post: a Newspaper in Sarajevo, 1884-1903 Carl Bethke 7 K.u.K. Generals of Romanian Nationality and Their Views on the Language Question Irina Marin 8 German and Romanian in Town Governments of Dualist Transylvania and the Banat Agoston Berecz 9 The People of the Five Hundred Villages : Hungarians, Rusyns, Jews, and Roma in the Transcarpathian Region in Austria-Hungary Csilla Fedinec and Istvan Csernicsko 10 Education in Habsburg Borderlands: the K.u.K. Staats-Oberrealschule in the Austrian Silesian Town of Teschen (1900-1921) Matthaus Wehowski 11 Reconstructing Multilingualism in Everyday Life: the Case of Late Habsburg Lviv Jan Fellerer 12 How Jesus Became a Woman, Climbed the Mountain, and Started to Roar: Habsburg Bukovina's Celebrated Multilingualism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Jeroen van Drunen Index

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Markian Prokopovych, Ph.D. (2005), Habil. (2011), Durham University, is the author of Habsburg Lemberg: Architecture, Public Space and Politics in the Galician Capital, 1772–1914 (2009) and In the Public Eye: The Budapest Opera House, the Audience and the Press, 1884–1918 (2014). Carl Bethke, Ph.D. (2006), University of Leipzig, is the author of (K)Eine gemeinsame Sprache? Aspekte deutsch-jüdischer Beziehungsgeschichte in Kroatien. Vom Zusammenleben zum Holocaust, 1900–1945 (2013) and Deutsche und ungarische Minderheiten in Kroatien und der Vojvodina 1918-1941: Identitätsentwürfe und ethnopolitische Mobilisierung (2009). Tamara Scheer, Ph.D. (2007), University of Vienna, is the author of many articles and monographs on the late Habsburg Monarchy focusing on language diversity, identities and loyalties and the Habsburg monarchy's engagement in South Eastern Europe.

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