Language Discourse and Borders in the Yugoslav Successor States

Brigitta Busch works as a senior research fellow at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Vienna University, Austria. She studied Slavistics and  Communication at Klagenfurt University. She also worked from 1992–2002 as an expert for the Council of Europe's Confidence Building Measures Programme in  South-Eastern Europe. Her main research interests cover sociolinguistics  (multilingualism in media and education), discourse analysis and intercultural communication.Helen Kelly-Holmes is a Research Scholar in the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her main research interests include intercultural aspects of market and media discourses.

• 1 Brigitta Busch and Helen Kelly-Holmes: Language Boundaries as Social, Political and Discursive Constructs2 Dubravko Škiljan: A Linguist on the Train to Vienna3 Ranko Bugarski: Language and Boundaries in the Yugoslav Context4 Dona Kolar-Panov: Troubled Multicultural Broadcasting in Macedonia5 Debate6 Tatiana Zhurzhenko: Language, Ethnicity and Cultural Boundaries in Ukraine: A Response to the Papers and Debate7 Marija Mitrović: Language, Borders, Identity: A Response to Ranko Bugarski8 Melitta Richter Malabotta: Semantics of War in Former Yugoslavia: A Response to the Papers and Debate