Book Review: Tomasz Kamusella, "Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe". Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022, 289 pp. ISBN: 978-963-386-417-3

Izabela Olszewska

doi:10.11649/ch.2893

Book Review: Tomasz Kamusella, "Words in Space and Time: A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe". Budapest: Central European University Press, 2022, 289 pp. ISBN: 978-963-386-417-3

Authors

Izabela Olszewska Uniwersytet Gdański [University of Gdańsk], Gdańsk , Uniwersytet Gdański [University of Gdańsk], Gdańsk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9150-0980 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11649/ch.2893

Keywords:

language policy, Central Europe, dialect continuum, writing systems

Abstract

The paper is a presentation of Tomasz Kamusella’s latest book on language policy in Central Europe. The volume in question provides the reader with substantial information on the mechanisms of the creation and use of Central European languages for political action.

References

Kamusella, T. (2008). The politics of language and nationalism in modern Central Europe. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583474 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583474

Kamusella, T. (2022). Words in space and time: A historical atlas of language politics in modern Central Europe. Central European University Press. https://doi.org/20.500.12657/52568 DOI: https://doi.org/10.7829/9789633864180