Дискурсивые процессы формирования коллективных (этнокультурных, этноязыковых) идентичностей в ранних южнославянских этнографических монографиях
Discursive processes of collective identity formation in early South Slavic ethnographies

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines specific discursive realizations of “folk identities” in a north Dalmatian ethnographic account from the end of the nineteenth century in the context of early South Slavic institutional-ethnographic practice. Texts such as these were produced as part of academic programmes involving the production of local and regional ethnographies by “literates from the people” in response to standardized elaborate questionnaires. Adopting a pragmatic/discourse-analytic perspective, our analysis deals with a number of relevant fragments and indicated those aspects of linguistic/textual discourse that are significant for constructing group identities as “us--our” vs. “them--of the other”. The analysis reveals the different levels and processes of discursive identity formation that emerge from the text, and suggests that systematic attention to such processes is indispensable if a reliable historical pragmatics of “ethnographic reality”, including the notion of “identities”, is hoped for.

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