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Torn between two nation-states: Agency and power in linguistic identity negotiation in minority contexts

The chapter analyses the process of negotiation of linguistic identity in two minority settings in the Adriatic region, the Arbanasi community of Zadar in Croatia and the Molise Croatian community in Italy. Both communities left their regions of origin much before the formation of the present nation states and are not legally considered as national minorities in Croatia and Italy respectively. However, both are affected by language policies from the nation- states: the one to which they belong territorially, and the one they originate from. Such initiatives are usually launched from the nation-state level, but agency as produced in stance-taking at the micro-level is crucial in determining its scope and effects. Based on an extensive ethnographic fieldwork, agentive responses to such initiatives, both individual and collective ones, are examined in these two minority contexts.

Molise Croatian, Arbanasi, minority languages, language policy, agency

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