Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas: A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Těsín/Cieszyn Region (Czechia)

by Peter Jordan, Marika Balode, Alexis Sancho-Reinoso, et al.

Book Overview

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030694909
• ISBN13: 9783030694906
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"