Language and Identity in the Balkans: Serbo-Croatian and Its Disintegration

Against a backdrop of the ethnic strife in the Balkans and the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991, Robert Greenberg describes how the languages of Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro came into being and shows how their genesis reflects ethnic, religious, and political identity. His first-hand observations before and after Communism offer insights into the nature of language change and the relation between language and identity.


Author: Robert D. Greenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/03/2004
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780199258154

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 858

About the Author

Robert Greenberg is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of New Haven and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1991 where he taught 1991-1992. He then taught at Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before taking up his current position in 2003.

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