Balkanism

balkanism English Alternative forms en balkanism Etymology From en Balkan -ism. The political meaning was coined by Maria Todorova in 1997 in her work Imagining the Balkans. Noun ~ A word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature originating or being geographically confined to the region of Balkans. en 2004 w:Victor Friedman The typology of Balkan evidentiality and areal linguistics Balkan Syntax and Semantics http://books.google.hr/books?id=VYoWE_tNKNQC&pg=PA102#v=onepage&q&f=false 102 In this paper I shall address the expression of evidentiality in the Balkan languages as a case study of a contact phenomenon, specifically a Balkanism, that must take both areal and typological factors into account. en politics Discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans. en 2008 Martin Coward Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction 30 http://books.google.hr/books?id=BsoYMriRoGgC&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q&f=false Balkanism attributes an essential character to the Balkan Peninsula that is the logical correlate of Balkanisation. Translations word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature Bulgarian: bg балкани́зъм m Georgian: ka ბალკანიზმი Macedonian: mk балкани́зам m Romanian: ro balcanism n Russian: ru балкани́зм m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh балканѝзам m Latin: sh balkanìzam m Slovene: sl balkanizem m discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans Georgian: ka ბალკანიზმი Romanian: ro balcanism n