Symbolic ethnicity, cultural and linguistic landscape: remnants of ‘Little Europe’ in the Valcanale (Northeast Italy)

IF 0.9 Q3 POLITICAL SCIENCE

NATIONAL IDENTITIES Pub Date : 2021-03-09 DOI:10.1080/14608944.2021.1894109

Anna-Maria Plautz, Leonie Hasenauer, I. Jelen, Peter Čede, Ernst Steinicke

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study investigates ‘Little Europe’, the rural, mountainous Italian region of the quadrilingual Valcanale, bordering Austria and Slovenia. The combined analysis of cultural landscape, linguistic landscape (LL) and symbolic ethnicity provides a new concept to examine multilingual regions. In this once Austrian valley, where German was the official language before WWI, Italian now dominates over minority languages, as exemplified by official signs. However, elements of the area's cultural and linguistic landscape reveal unexpected linguistic practices and visible, locatable artefacts of the Valcanale's ethnolinguistic heritage, which we assume to play a key role in the preservation of symbolic ethnicity.

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象征性种族、文化和语言景观:瓦尔卡纳莱(意大利东北部)“小欧洲”遗迹

摘要:本研究调查了“小欧洲”，这是意大利Valcanale四语区的农村山区，与奥地利和斯洛文尼亚接壤。文化景观、语言景观和象征民族的综合分析为研究多语言地区提供了一个新的概念。在这个曾经的奥地利山谷，德语在第一次世界大战之前是官方语言，现在意大利语在少数民族语言中占主导地位，官方标志就是一个例子。然而，该地区的文化和语言景观元素揭示了意想不到的语言实践和可见的、可定位的Valcanale民族语言遗产的人工制品，我们认为这在保存象征性种族方面发挥了关键作用。

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NATIONAL IDENTITIES POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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期刊介绍： National Identities explores the formation and expression of national identity from antiquity to the present day. It examines the role in forging identity of cultural (language, architecture, music, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with "the other" etc.) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining how these have been shaped and changed over time. The historical significance of "nation"in political and cultural terms is considered in relationship to other important and in some cases countervailing forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe or class. The focus is on identity, rather than on contingent political forms that may express it. The journal is not prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach.