Jordan / Mácha / Balode Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas

A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Tešín/Cieszyn Region (Czechia)
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-69488-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 616 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within their social and political histories, and probes recent debates in the social sciences relating to place names, identity and power. It will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on place names and naming practices, minority communities and languages, and linguistic landscapes.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan, Peter

Mácha, Premysl

Balode, Marika

Krticka, Ludek

Obrusník, Uršula

Obrusník, Ursula

Pilch, Pavel

Sancho Reinoso, Alexis

Sanc, Alexis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Wider Onomastic Scope of the Research Topic.- Chapter 3: The Challenges of Studying Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas.- Chapter 4: Linguistic Minorities in Austria and Czechia: Historical, Political, and Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 5: The Two Minority Situations Compared.- Chapter 6: Research Results.- Chapter 7: Comparative Interpretation of Research Results.- Chapter 8: Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Jordan
is Honorary and Associate Professor in the Institute of Urban and Regional Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria, and Research Fellow of the University of the Free State, Faculty of the Humanities, South Africa.
Premysl Mácha
is a Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia. 
Marika Balode
is currently pursuing an MA in the Institute of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.
LudekKrticka
is Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Regional Development, University of Ostrava, Czechia. 
Uršula Obrusník
is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. 
Pavel Pilch
is Assistant Professor of Slavic Philology in the Philosophical Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, where he is also pursuing his PhD.
Alexis Sancho Reinoso
is a Researcher in the Centre for Global Change and Sustainability at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Austria.