SHAPING MODERN SERBIAN ETHNOLINGUISTIC NATION AND NATIONAL STATE-BUILDING IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH C.
SHAPING MODERN SERBIAN ETHNOLINGUISTIC NATION AND NATIONAL STATE-BUILDING IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH C.

Summary/Abstract: This research paper sets out to present linguistic aspect of ideological framework in making both Serbian national identity and national state building program created in the first half of 19th century by two different Serbian writers (Vuk Stefanovic-Karadzic and Ilija Garasanin). This “linguistic” framework of national identity became in the following decades one of the cornerstones of Serbian national ideology and foreign policy. The question of national identity and creation of national state occupied the first place of agenda in the mind of the leading Serbian intellectuals and politicians in the first half of 19th c. Imbued by ideas of German Romanticism and French Revolution, Serbian patriotic public workers set up a goal to create an ideological-political framework for Serbian national liberation under foreign occupation – Roman Catholic Habsburg Monarchy and Islamic Ottoman Empire.

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