National Consolidation vs European Integration: The Language Issue in Slovakia

Security Dialogue

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 479-491

  Harlig, Jeffrey ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0347171109     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010697028004008     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Many Hungarian authors in Hungary and Slovakia make this assumption. (See, for example, Miklós Kontra's 'English Only's Cousin: Slovak Only', Acta Linguistica Hungarica 1995/1996, vol. 43, pp. 345-372.) Such works only mimic in microcosm the conflicts they claim to be attempting to resolve.
2. Statistical Yearbook of the Slovak Republic (Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Sciences, 1996).
3. 'Palimpsest History', in Stefan Collini, ed., Interpretation and Overinterpretation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, pp. 125-138).
4. See Lajos Für, 'Hungarian History as Taught by Hungary's Neighbors', in Stephen Borsody, ed., The Hungarians: A Divided Nation (New Haven, CT: Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1988, pp. 303-316).
5. 'Foreword', Slovaks and Magyars: Slovak-Magyar Relations in Central Europe (Bratislava: Slovak Ministry of Culture, 1995, p. 5).
6. The vituperative Slovak-Hungarian exchanges in the press and official correspondence from 1991 through 1994 are recorded in Zsigmond Zalabai, ed., Mit ér a nyelvünk, ha magyar? (What is Our Language Worth if It's Hungarian?) (Bratislava: Kalligram, 1995).
7. David Lucas, Ethnic Bipolarism in Slovakia, 1989-1995 (Seattle, WA: Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, 1996).
8. In full: 'Law of the National Council of the Slovak Republic of 15 November 1995 on the State Language of the Slovak Republic' (Zbierka zákonov no. 270/1995, Part 89, pp. 1999-2002).
9. Milan Ferko, 'The Slovak Language - Language of the State and its Citizens'. (From various sources.)
10. Minority Protection Association, The Slovak State Language Law and the Minorities Minority Protection Series 1 (Budapest: Kossuth Publishing, 1996).
11. Lucas, op. cit., p. 11.
12. Open Media Research Institute Daily Reports, Part II (hereafter OMRI), 21 February 1997.
13. OMRI, 21 February 1997; 26 February 1997; and 7 March 1997.
14. Personal communication from an Institute member.
15. Public opinion research conducted among the Hungarian minority in Slovakia in March 1993 showed 95% rejection of statements indicating disloyalty to the Slovak state, and 74% rejection of irredentist goals. Reported in Pavol Fric, Fedor Gál, Peter Huncík, and Christopher Lord, The Hungarian Minority in Slovakia. (Prague: Institute of Social and Political Science, Charles University, 1995).
16. Brian Schwegler, 'Slovaks We Are and Slovaks We Will Be: The Discourse of Language and Essentialized Identity in Contemporary Slovakia' (University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology ms.), p. 9.
17. Sammy Smooha & Theodor Hanf, 'The Diverse Modes of Conflict Regulation in Deeply Divided Societies', in Anthony Smith, ed., Ethnicity and Nationalism (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992), p. 32. See also Graham Smith, 'The Ethnic Democracy Thesis and the Citizenship Question in Estonia and Latvia', Nationalities Papers 24, no. 2, 1996, pp. 199-216.
18. Sammy Smooha & Theodor Hanf, 'The Diverse Modes of Conflict Regulation in Deeply Divided Societies', in Anthony Smith, ed., Ethnicity and Nationalism (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992), p. 32. See also Graham Smith, 'The Ethnic Democracy Thesis and the Citizenship Question in Estonia and Latvia', Nationalities Papers 24, no. 2, 1996, pp. 199-216.
19. OMRI 12 February 1997.
20. Zora Bútorová, et al., 'Current Problems of Slovakia after the Split of the CSFR' (Report of the Sociological Survey) (Bratislava: Center for Social Analysis, 1993).
21. See László Gyurgyík, Magyar mérleg: A szlovákiai magyarság a népszámlálási és a népmozgalmi adatok tükrében (Hungarians in the Balance: The Hungarians of Slovakia Viewed through Census and Demographic Data) (Pozsony [Bratislava]: Kalligram Könyvkiadó, 1994).
22. OMRI, 18 December 1996.
23. M. Bohus, 'Rozvod?' (Divorce?) in Slovensky narod 14 August 1991, cited in Stanislav Kirschbaum, A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
24. M. Bohus, 'Rozvod?' (Divorce?) in Slovensky narod 14 August 1991, cited in Stanislav Kirschbaum, A History of Slovakia: The Struggle for Survival (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
25. Meciar prepared the Slovak electorate for their country's fall with numerous statements proclaiming BEI bias against Slovakia.