"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 governments, schools, the army and the urban public sphere, and on linguistic policies and practices in transition, this collective volume provides further evidence for both the merits of how language diversity was managed in Austria-Hungary and the problems and contradictions that surrounded those practices. The book includes contributions by Pieter M. Judson, Marta Verginella, Rok Stergar, Anamarija Luki, Carl Bethke, Irina Marin, Goston Berecz, Csilla Fedinec,Istvâan Csernicskâo, Matthèaus Wehowski, Jan Fellerer, and Jeroen van Drunen"--
Author(s): Markian Prokopovych, Carl Bethke, Tamara Scheer
Series: Central and Eastern Europe
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: Leiden
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors
Chapter 2 Encounters with Language Diversity in Late Habsburg Austria
Chapter 3 The Fight for the National Linguistic Primacy: Testimonies from the Austrian Littoral
Chapter 4 The Evolution of Linguistic Policies and Practices of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces in the Era of Ethnic Nationalisms: The Case of Ljubljana-Laibach
Chapter 5 Language Transition in the Town of Osijek at the End of Austro-Hungarian Rule (1902–1913)
Chapter 6 The Bosnische Post: A Newspaper in Sarajevo, 1884–1903
Chapter 7 K.u.K. Generals of Romanian Nationality and Their Views on the Language Question
Chapter 8 German and Romanian in Town Governments of Dualist Transylvania and the Banat
Chapter 9 The People of the “Five Hundred Villages”: Hungarians, Rusyns, Jews, and the Roma in the Transcarpathian Region in Austria–Hungary
Chapter 10 Education in Habsburg Borderlands: The K.u.K. Staats-Oberrealschule in the Austrian Silesian Town of Teschen (1900–1921)
Chapter 11 Reconstructing Multilingualism in Everyday Life: The Case of Late Habsburg Lviv
Chapter 12 How Jesus Became a Woman, Climbed the Mountain, and Started to Roar: Habsburg Bukovina’s Celebrated Multilingualism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Index
