Language planning in Slovakia : Nation-building in the context of European integration

Abstract

This chapter discusses language planning in the territory of today's Slovakia in its historical context. The discussion focuses especially on language-planning developments since the disintegration of the Czech-Slovak federation in 1992/1993, such as debates in the country about the influence of Czech, the social-linguistic ramifications of the new policies on minority-language rights and their relationship to international legal standards.

Keywords

• language planning
• language policy
• Slovakia
• Slovak-Hungarian relations
• Hungarian minority in Slovakia
• Czech in Slovakia
• international relations