This volume probes into the mechanisms of how languages are created, legitimized, maintained, or destroyed in the service of the extant nation-states across Central Europe.

Introduction 1. Language or Dialect? Nation-Building in Central Europe 2. Language and Place in Recent Eastern European Linguistic Regionalism Part 1: State Languages 3. The Russian Standard Language from the Empire Through the Revolution and Stalinism to Perestroika 4. Attitudes to Linguistic Accuracy among Russian-Speaking Social Media Users 5. Rethinking the Graphization Process of the Belarusian Language in Eastern and Western Belarus During the Interwar Period 6. Urban Oral Ukrainian of the 1920s as Reflected in Early Soviet Literature 7. Democratizing Linguistic Forms: Language Regulation and Diachronic Shifts in Czech 8. Script Revitalization? Reemergence of Old Scripts Among South Slavs 9. Ideology Against Language: The Current Situation in South Slavic Countries 10. Change and Variation in the Bulgarian Language of Internet and Social Media Part 2: Substate Languages 11. The Latvian (In)Dependence and the Latgalian Language Question 12. Silesian: Between Suppression in Poland and Flourishing on the Web 13. Codification of Vojvodina Rusyn: Language Ideology in Kosteljnik's Grammar of 1923 14. Standardizing Vlach Romanian in Eastern Serbia: A Remissive Issue