Balkanism

See also: balkanism

English

Alternative forms

• balkanism

Etymology

From Balkan +‎ -ism. The political meaning was coined by Maria Todorova in 1997 in her work Imagining the Balkans.

Noun

Balkanism (countable and uncountable, plural Balkanisms)

1. A word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature originating or being geographically confined to the region of Balkans.
   • 2004, Victor Friedman, “The typology of Balkan evidentiality and areal linguistics”, in Balkan Syntax and Semantics, page 102:

     In this paper I shall address the expression of evidentiality in the Balkan languages as a case study of a contact phenomenon, specifically a Balkanism, that must take both areal and typological factors into account.

2. (politics) Discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans.
   • 2008, Martin Coward, Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction‎^[1], page 30:

     Balkanism attributes an essential character to the Balkan Peninsula that is the logical correlate of Balkanisation.

Translations

word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature

• Bulgarian: балкани́зъм m (balkanízǎm)
• Georgian: ბალკანიზმი (balḳanizmi)
• Macedonian: балкани́зам m (balkanízam)
• Romanian: balcanism (ro) n
• Russian: балкани́зм (ru) m (balkanízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: балканѝзам m

  Roman: balkanìzam (sh) m

• Slovene: balkanizem m

discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans

• Georgian: ბალკანიზმი (balḳanizmi)
• Romanian: balcanism (ro) n