Linguistic Landscapes at the margins: Performativity of ethnic belonging and memory politics in Croatian post-conflict border regions

“边缘的语言景观：克罗地亚冲突后边境地区族裔归属和记忆政治的表演性”项目旨在分析克罗地亚两个农村边境地区和前战争遗址的语言景观。一个中心重点将是在公共空间的种族和民族主义紧张局势的持续语言迹象的检查。战争的持续影响，因此，作为一个冲突后的网站，这一空间的地位是特别重要的分析本研究项目。通过使用基于民族志视角的语言使用三角方法，公共空间中语言符号的相互关系，它们的政治信息，相应的意识形态起源，以及它们的时间性（即，这一计划中的项目将对语言景观研究（LLS）的方法论发展做出积极贡献，因为它集中于农村景观，而迄今为止LLS的大多数研究都集中在城市地区的研究上。此外，该项目正在引起人们对东南欧语言使用民族志研究这一新兴领域的注意，这使得人们能够添加一套特别迷人的材料和分析，在克罗地亚里耶卡的东南欧高级研究中心开展计划中的研究活动，这将为计划的实地工作和进一步制定国际和跨学科网络以及东南欧地区研究的学术生涯创造最佳条件。该项目将是关于东南欧语言，政治和意识形态相互联系的一系列研究项目中的第一个，这将使申请人能够追求她的学术职业道路。

The project "Linguistic Landscapes at the margins: Performativity of ethnic belonging and memory politics in Croatian post-conflict border regions" is aimed at analyzing the linguistic landscape in two rural border regions and former war sites in Croatia. A central focus will be on the examination of persisting linguistic signs of ethnic and nationalist tension in the public space. The continuing influence of the war and, hence, the status of this space as a post-conflict site is of particular analytic importance for this research project. By using a triangulated methodological approach based on an ethnographic perspective on language use, the interrelations of linguistic signs in public space, their political messages, the corresponding ideological origin, as well as the their temporality (i.e., both the historical context in which they were produced as well as the current time, which these linguistic signs are still influencing), will be examined.The planned project will make an active contribution to the methodological development of Linguistic Landscape Studies (LLS) by concentrating on rural landscapes, while most research in LLS so far has focused on the study of urban areas. Furthermore, the project is drawing the attention of this emerging field of ethnographic studies on language use to South Eastern Europe, which allows adding a particularly fascinating set of material and analyses given the loaded legacy of (language) politics in this region.Conducting the planned research activities at the Center for Advanced Studies – South Eastern Europe - CAS SEE in Rijeka, Croatia, will both enable best conditions for the planned field work and the further elaboration of an international and interdisciplinary network and an academic career in Southeast European Area Studies. The project will be the first of a series of research projects on the interconnection of language, politics and ideologies in Southeast Europe which will allow the applicant to pursue her academic career path.