Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies ( IF 0.990 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-11 , DOI: 10.1080/19448953.2021.1935075 Tamara Banjeglav 1
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses a crisis regarding Serb national minority rights in the city of Vukovar. The crisis was caused by the government’s attempt to introduce Serbian language and Cyrillic alphabet in the official use in Vukovar. The paper examines which symbolic meanings of the Cyrillic alphabet were used with the aim of consolidating national identity and collective memory of the war in Croatia. The paper argues that the use of a minority language and script was discursively framed as a means of aggression of one ethnic community over another, rather than as an issue of minority rights. The paper is theoretically grounded in Michele Foucault’s theory about the ‘discourse of perpetual war’.
中文翻译:
字母战争:克罗地亚少数民族权利当代辩论中的语言、集体记忆和民族认同
摘要
本文讨论了武科瓦尔市塞族少数民族权利的危机。这场危机是由于政府试图在武科瓦尔的官方使用中引入塞尔维亚语和西里尔字母造成的。本文研究了西里尔字母的哪些象征意义被用于巩固克罗地亚战争的民族认同和集体记忆。该论文认为,少数民族语言和文字的使用在话语上被认为是一个族群对另一个族群进行侵略的手段,而不是一个少数民族权利问题。这篇论文的理论基础是米歇尔·福柯关于“永久战争话语”的理论。