Language diversity in the late Habsburg empire / / edited by Markian Prokopovych, Carl Bethke, Tamara Scheer.

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 gove...

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Superior document:Central and Eastern Europe; volume 9
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Central and Eastern Europe; volume 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 272 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors
  • Encounters with Language Diversity in Late Habsburg Austria / Pieter M. Judson
  • The Fight for the National Linguistic Primacy: Testimonies from the Austrian Littoral / Marta Verginella
  • 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
  • Language Transition in the Town of Osijek at the End of Austro-Hungarian Rule (1902–1913) / Anamarija Lukić
  • The Bosnische Post: A Newspaper in Sarajevo, 1884–1903 / Carl Bethke
  • K.u.K. Generals of Romanian Nationality and Their Views on the Language Question / Irina Marin
  • German and Romanian in Town Governments of Dualist Transylvania and the Banat / Ágoston Berecz
  • The People of the “Five Hundred Villages”: Hungarians, Rusyns, Jews, and the Roma in the Transcarpathian Region in Austria–Hungary / Csilla Fedinec and István Csernicskó
  • Education in Habsburg Borderlands: The K.u.K. Staats-Oberrealschule in the Austrian Silesian Town of Teschen (1900–1921) / Matthäus Wehowski
  • Reconstructing Multilingualism in Everyday Life: The Case of Late Habsburg Lviv / Jan Fellerer
  • 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
  • Back Matter
  • Index.