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English
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)
- 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.
- (politics) Discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans.
2008, Martin Coward, Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction, 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