Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors

Prokopovych, Markian; Bethke, Carl; Scheer, Tamara

Abstract

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 Lukić, Carl Bethke, Irina Marin, Ágoston Berecz, Csilla Fedinec, István Csernicskó, Matthäus Wehowski, Jan Fellerer, and Jeroen van Drunen.

Citation

Prokopovych, M., Bethke, C., & Scheer, T. (2019). Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire: Foreword from the Editors. In M. Prokopovych, C. Bethke, & T. Scheer (Eds.), Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire (1-11). Brill Academic Publishers

• Online Publication Date: Aug 1, 2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 20, 2019
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Pages: 1-11
• Book Title: Language Diversity in the Late Habsburg Empire
• ISBN: 978-90-04-40210-2
• Publisher URL: https://brill.com/view/title/55144