{"title":"Some Comments Based Upon Comparisons with the Situation of Styrian Slovenes.","authors":"Klaus-Jürgen Hermanik","doi":"10.7152/SSJ.V30I2.14772","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This commentary poses specific questions to the papers’ authors through comparison with the situation of autochthonous Styrian Slovenes, which I have studied over the past decade. I have been particularly interested in historical changes regarding German-Slovene bilingualism in the southwest of Styria, identity constructions among people residing in the border region, Austrian and Slovene nation building and assimilation, and the denial of minority rights in Styria due to local political circumstances (Hermanik 2007). In his paper, “Slovenes of Carinthia and Their Fight to Retain Their Identity With/Against Post-World War II Austrian Governments,” Matjaž Klemenčič provides insight into various kinds of the Carinthian Slovene identity constructions (Keupp at al. 1999) during recent decades. The sources used range from census data to mass media and demonstrate the complexity of the subject at hand. I wish to discuss two points:","PeriodicalId":82261,"journal":{"name":"Papers in Slovene studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"241-244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Papers in Slovene studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7152/SSJ.V30I2.14772","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This commentary poses specific questions to the papers’ authors through comparison with the situation of autochthonous Styrian Slovenes, which I have studied over the past decade. I have been particularly interested in historical changes regarding German-Slovene bilingualism in the southwest of Styria, identity constructions among people residing in the border region, Austrian and Slovene nation building and assimilation, and the denial of minority rights in Styria due to local political circumstances (Hermanik 2007). In his paper, “Slovenes of Carinthia and Their Fight to Retain Their Identity With/Against Post-World War II Austrian Governments,” Matjaž Klemenčič provides insight into various kinds of the Carinthian Slovene identity constructions (Keupp at al. 1999) during recent decades. The sources used range from census data to mass media and demonstrate the complexity of the subject at hand. I wish to discuss two points: