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On the Inadequacy of the Ethnic/Civic Antinomy: The Language Politics of Bulgarian Nationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alex Toshkov
Alex Toshkov*
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Columbia University, History, 611 Fayerweather Hall, 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, MC 2527, NY 10027, USA. Email: ast9@columbia.edu
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Introduction

The significance of language and literature as formative to national identity is a major trope within studies of nationalism. The act of imagining and realizing a nation and a nation-state along these lines has been tackled from multiple angles including folklore, linguistics, historical studies of educational institutions and their curricula, with a prominent place reserved for textbook analysis. Even though historical studies for the most part have underscored the rapidity and novelty of these processes, a temporal claim that is part and parcel of the larger and fundamental assertion that nationalism is a modern phenomenon, these processes are negotiated over a period of decades. In Braudelian terms, the standardization of a national language would fall somewhere between conjoncture and événement.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , May 2009 , pp. 277 - 298
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Copyright © 2009 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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