Conflict, Exclusion And Dissent In The Linguist... [ 2025-2027 ]

The historical suppression of Catalan or Basque in Spain, or Kurdish in the Eastern Mediterranean, serves as a tool for state-building by erasing sub-national identities.

The fragmentation of Serbo-Croatian into Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian illustrates how linguistic "narcissism of small differences" reinforces wartime divisions. Conflict, Exclusion and Dissent in the Linguist...

The shadow of past empires (Ottoman, Roman, French, British) on modern speech. The historical suppression of Catalan or Basque in

The imposition of French in the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) created a lasting conflict between "prestige" colonial languages and indigenous mother tongues. 3. Exclusion: The Silence of the "Other" or Kurdish in the Eastern Mediterranean

How "speaking right" determines who is a citizen and who is an outsider.