Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans: A Corpus-based Approach

1.      Introduction 

 1.1.   Questione della lingua in modern West Central Balkans

1.2.   A brief sociolinguistic history of modern Central South Slavic

1.3.   Language, identity, and ethnonationalism in contemporary West Central Balkans

2.1.   Ethnonationalism

2.2.   Language ideology

2.4.   The current research context

3.      Data and methods 

3.1.   The corpora

3.2.   Methods and research design

4.1.   Keyword analysis

4.2.   Collocation analysis

4.4.   Analysis of variance

4.5.   Cluster analysis

5.      Qualitative results by method 

5.1.   Content and thematic analysis

6.      Language-related discourses, language ideologies, and ethnonationalism 

6.1.   The discourse of endangerment

6.3.   Monolingualism and standard language ideology

6.4.   Language as the essence of ethnonational identity

6.5.   The role of language in the Serbian ethnonationalist project

7.      Conclusion 

7.1.   The advantages of multivariate statistics and the three-step approach

7.2.   Linguistic authority and ethnonationalism in West Central Balkans

8.      Coda: Big data vs. small minds 

Appendices