Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans

Adnan Ajšić is Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His writing has appeared in Applied Linguistics, Corpora, Journal of Language and Politics, Language Policy, and Times Higher Education as well as volumes published by Routledge, Wiley-Blackwell, and Multilingual Matters. He has served as an interpreter/translator for the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, the Netherlands.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Central theoretical concepts and the current research context.- Chapter 3: Data and Methods.- Chapter 4: Quantitative results by method.- Chapter 5: Qualitative results by method.- Chapter 6: Language-related discourses, language ideologies, and ethnonationalism.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.- Chapter 8: Coda: Big Data vs. Small Minds.

“The book offers insightful ideas regarding the interactions between language and ideology, particularly the discursive-ideological complex of regional ethnonationalism. Therefore, it can be a valuable reference for students, scholars, and researchers engaged in critical discourse studies, corpus linguistics, and language politics.” (Zhonghua Wu and Le Cheng, Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 21 (4), 2022)