Sökning: "linguistic nationalism"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden linguistic nationalism.
1. Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
Sammanfattning : As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in Turkey, the sites of struggle for majority power and minority resistance are as follows: the documents of international and European organisations on the linguistic rights of minorities, the impact of the modernisation and nation-state building process in Turkey on the Kurdish-speaking community and the resistance engendered by the Kurdish intelligentsia in the European diaspora and in Turkey against the majority power delimiting the Kurdish linguistic rights. LÄS MER
2. Nation, nationalism och identitet : Sydafrika i svensk sekelskiftesdebatt
Sammanfattning : This study is a study of nationalism at the last turn of the century. The empirical sources are Swedish newspapers from 1899 to 1902. Using debates on the Boers and their treatment of the momentous events of the Boer War in South Africa as a focus and a metaphor, the social and linguistic construction of various types of nationalism is analyzed. LÄS MER
3. From Words to Voids : Absencing and Haunting in Crimean Semiotic Landscapes
Sammanfattning : This thesis seeks to contribute to the body of ethnographically-oriented semiotic landscape research by addressing linguistic and non-linguistic signs in the landscapes of contemporary Crimea. It is based on research conducted in the region back in 2017 and 2019 after the Russian annexation but before the full-scale war against Ukraine, which started on 24 February 2022. LÄS MER
4. Language change vs. stability in conservative language communities. A case study of Icelandic
Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a study in language stability. Icelandic, which is regarded by many as a prime example of a stable language, is chosen as a vehicle for an examination of this field. LÄS MER
5. A study of European, Persian and Arabic loans in standard Sorani
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines processes of lexical borrowing in the Sorani standard of the Kurdish language, spoken in Iraq, Iran, and the Kurdish diaspora. Borrowing, a form of language contact, occurs on all levels of language structure. LÄS MER