Balkanism
See also: balkanism
English
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Etymology
From Balkan + -ism. The political meaning was coined by Maria Todorova in 1997 in her work Imagining the Balkans.
Noun
Balkanism (plural Balkanisms)
- A word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature originating or being geographically confined to the region of Balkans.
- 2004, Victor Friedman, The typology of Balkan evidentiality and areal linguistics, in Balkan Syntax and Semantics, page 102:
- In this paper I shall address the expression of evidentiality in the Balkan languages as a case study of a contact phenomenon, specifically a Balkanism, that must take both areal and typological factors into account.
- 2004, Victor Friedman, The typology of Balkan evidentiality and areal linguistics, in Balkan Syntax and Semantics, page 102:
- (politics) Discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans.
Translations
word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature
discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans
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