Politics of Words: Language and loyalty of Czech-speaking soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350141377.0020" target="_blank" >10.5040/9781350141377.0020</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Politics of Words: Language and loyalty of Czech-speaking soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The chapter focuses on the way Czech-speaking members of the Austro-Hungarian military understood language as a symbolic battleground where their perceived interests were to be fought over with the authorities who, from the NCOs and junior officers up, increasingly relied on language as a way to differentiate between various groups of soldiers and to judge them by it. It aims to understand the relative importance language had in entrenching “Czech” collective identity among the Czech-speaking troops in the process which can be described as a creeping sense of alienation, with various authors reflecting on how – in their perception at least – military authorities changed their attitude to the language issue over the course of the war from generally indifferent or class-dependent in 1914 to overtly German-nationalist views held by large segments of the officer corps in 1918, and how this influenced their own morale and sense of loyalty. While asking how much this process owed to pre-war nationalist politics, the chapter argues that what resulted was a strengthened group identity based on the use of Czech as a primary tool of group identification, both by the speakers and the others.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Politics of Words: Language and loyalty of Czech-speaking soldiers in the Austro-Hungarian army

Popis výsledku anglicky

The chapter focuses on the way Czech-speaking members of the Austro-Hungarian military understood language as a symbolic battleground where their perceived interests were to be fought over with the authorities who, from the NCOs and junior officers up, increasingly relied on language as a way to differentiate between various groups of soldiers and to judge them by it. It aims to understand the relative importance language had in entrenching “Czech” collective identity among the Czech-speaking troops in the process which can be described as a creeping sense of alienation, with various authors reflecting on how – in their perception at least – military authorities changed their attitude to the language issue over the course of the war from generally indifferent or class-dependent in 1914 to overtly German-nationalist views held by large segments of the officer corps in 1918, and how this influenced their own morale and sense of loyalty. While asking how much this process owed to pre-war nationalist politics, the chapter argues that what resulted was a strengthened group identity based on the use of Czech as a primary tool of group identification, both by the speakers and the others.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Multilingual Environments in the Great War

ISBN

978-1-350-14135-3

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

121-136

Počet stran knihy

255

Název nakladatele

Bloomsbury Publishing

Místo vydání

London

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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