Books in the Thought, Society, Culture series

A sociolinguistic survey of some key issues concerning language use in 16th century Slovenia is followed by a detailed presentation of all linguistic works from this period, which range from Adam Bohoric's pioneering grammar (1584) to isolated notes found in books and manuscripts.

This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative methods and a broad spectrum of sources. He explores how this process was triggered by tectonic geopolitical changes resulting from the Ottoman conquests in the Balkans and the Pannonian Basin.

The author treats the correspondence between the Slavist Jernej Kopitar and the Slovene patron Ziga Zois (composed between 1808-19). First, he situates it in history and within the genre of the letter, especially in regard to Enlightenment epistolography; second, he deals with its importance for the development of Slavic cultural nationalisms.

This work discusses early-modern collective identities related to territory, language, cultural milieu, state, and alleged "ethnic" origins in the border and multilingual areas of Friuli and the County of Gorizia before the rise of nineteenth-century nationalisms.