In this article, I examine early religious literature in the Albanian language in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which, in combination with ecclesiastical rivalries and a differential opposition to Ottoman rule, must have promoted an inherent cultural process of differentiation, especially between Greek-speaking and Albanian-speaking Ort...
Published in Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics
Globalization in the early 21st century can be considered as the age of inequality that splits the world into the rich North and the poor South. From the perspective of language politics, only very few discussed the division across the globe, especially, between Eurasia and the “Rest of the world.” In Eurasia, indigenous languages and scripts are u...
English-language media in India retains and exercises an outsized power that not only carries forward a colonial legacy, but also contributes to a balkanized media sphere. This manifesto argues for and imagines a way out of the entrenched language divides within Indian media, calling for at the very least a merger of English and Hindi language news...
Toward the end of the Troubles, the notion of an Ulster-Scots ethnicity, culture, and language began to be pursued by certain unionists and loyalists more desirous of ‘something more racy of the soil’ (Dowling 2007:54). Peace-building in Northern Ireland had undergone something of a cultural turn: the armed struggle over constitutional and civil ri...
This article proposes an interpretation of how the doctrine of Miguel Antonio Caro, particularly his conceptions regarding history, progress, and order, gave rise to a way of thinking about language as oscillating between two broad tendencies: the old and the new, or the classic and the modern. The dynamics of this conceptual «pendulum» are analyze...
Published in Language Policy
This paper looks into failed attempts by the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) minority government (2000–2008) to alter Taiwan’s Mandarin-dominated language regime by drafting law proposals recognizing the languages of all Taiwanese ethnic groups as equal national languages. This paper argues that the failure to enact language regime change in T...
10.1177/0097700408330013 / Modern China / 35 / 5 / 467-494
Korea Journal / 48 / 2 / 136-159
