Tomasz Kamusella’s research while affiliated with University of St Andrews and other places

... 15 For further discussion, see Straner (2018a); Surman (2019); and more broadly Gordin (2015). 16 Kamusella (2009Kamusella ( , 2021. For a political analysis of these "nationalizing states" and the case of Poland, see Brubaker (1996, pp. ...

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History of science in Central and Eastern Europe : Studies from Poland, Hungary, and Croatia

... In case of literature, xenophobia manifests not only in terms of harmful narratives leading to discrimination [301] and violence [208], but also via ethnolinguistic purity, centering only the works written by the favoured in-group as "true" national cultural heritage, whilst erasing contributions written in minority languages [155]. ...

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Manifestations of Xenophobia in AI Systems

... The conflict-ridden ethnic federalism since 1991 has shaped our perception of these ethnic clashes in the country (Yusuf, 2019). After the fall of the Soviet Derg military government in 1991, Ethiopia was rebuilt along ethnic lines by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) (Kefale et al., 2021). Against this backdrop, political authority was formally transferred to ethnic-focused federal organizations and ethnic parties, primarily the Oromo Prosperity Party (PP) and the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) (Yusuf, 2019). ...

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Unraveling the Persistence of Ethnic Conflict in Ethiopia: Examining Causes

... In Poland, for example, moves to recognise selected regional languages (such as Silesian) are currently afoot, though this is also the subject of political debate (see Polskie Radio, 2024). Similarly to many of the creoles spoken in the Caribbean (see Winford, 1985), many of these Central & Eastern European minority languages exist in a state of diglossia with more dominant national languages (see e.g., Kamusella, 2016). In some cases, attempts to increase their vitality, prestige, and recognition have been ongoing for decades for example, in the case of Carpatho-Rusyn, dating back to the growing ethnolinguistic consciousness of the mid-19th century (Plishkova, 2017). ...

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On Promoting Literacy in Regional and Minority Languages: Some Potential Pointers from Central and Eastern Europe for Trinidad English Creole

... LI denotes the ideological influence still held by colonial powers from linguistic infrastructure crafted, developed and enforced more than six centuries ago. Kamusella (2020) highlights how the ethnolinguistic nationalism cultivated in Europe, resulting in the development of nation-states, did not occur in the same way in the new world. Instead, these spaces took on and still use colonial languages even after post-colonial decolonisation (Heugh, 2013). ...

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The British Council And The Soft Power Of Science In The ‘Developing World’

... Вместо этого важно изучить функции, в которых РЯ используется вне страны, документировать изменения, которые претерпевает язык, и их причины (Еленевская и др. 2019, Мустайоки, Протасова 2004, Kamusella 2018, Mustajoki et al. 2010, Nikunlassi & Protassova 2019. ...

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Linguistic pluricentrism and the Russian language

... Looking at the current period, Bulgaria's existing constitution provides for religious freedom, but it defines the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the "traditional religion" of Bulgaria (Islamic Human Rights Commission, 2006). It is observed that the harsh assimilation policies pursued in the past are no longer in effect (Kamusella, 2019). ...

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A Turk at the Summit: The Timeless Legacy of Naim Süleymanoğlu

... Contemporary Arabic does not serve only as the vehicle for modern forms of literature, but also as a medium of communication between literate Arabs from different parts of the Arab world (Ryding, 2005). Western linguists mainly use the term "Contemporary Arabic" to refer to the standardized, literary Arabic variety that developed in the Arab world in the late 19th century (Kamusella, 2017). Contemporary Arabic differs most markedly from Classical Arabic in synthesizing words from Classical Arabic roots or borrowing words from different European languages that can describe industrial and technological life (ibid). ...

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Sources of Syntactic Ambiguity in Contemporary Arabic. A Corpus Study

... The same history resulted in the country's grappling with language matters and language in education becoming a thorny subject (Heugh 2017;Atmore 2013). In their book, The Social and Political History of Southern Africa's Languages, Kamusella and Ndhlovu (2018:3) posit that in South Africa, the apartheid regime created 'Bantustans' or black homelands where non-white people would be concentrated based on the language they happen to speak. These apartheid policies negated migrations, and instead promoted development of languages within one's own cultural groups -it was therefore easy to teach in the mother tongue. ...

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Translanguaging as a strategy for navigating multilingualism in peri-urban preschool classrooms

... The Polish Ziemie odzyskane discourse (Ger. Deutsche Ostgebiete/Recovered Territories), drew from the medieval period of Piast Poland when, for three centuries, the lands of Silesia and Pomerania belonged to the Polish polity, while ignoring six centuries of German cultural presence in the region (Kamusella, 2017;Ochman 2013). This state-sanctioned simplifying of narratives of the post-German borderlands, which were multi-national and multi-ethnic and the site of complex identity negotiations, 3 Bator's novel, translated into German in 2012 as Sandberg, was nominated for Herman Hesse literary award in 2018. ...

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Polish Literary Reckoning of the Post-WWII Population Resettlement: the Lens of “Tender Narrator”