Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung des Standard-Albanischen
Coming to Terms with the Past of Standard Albanian

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses the state of development of coming to terms with the Standard Albanian language in the states of Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia after the radical changes in the 1990s. It concludes that the approach to Standard Albanian shows two different ways of coming to terms with the past. The interface between both is the declaration of independence of Kosovo (2008). Three different strategies can be found when societies in Southeast Europe are dealing with their socialist pasts: those removing traces, those approaching scientifically, and those approaching nostalgically. Standard Albanian proves the rule in this respect.

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