TY - JOUR
TI - National Identities Expressed Through Intercultural Communication in the Balkans (Current Conditions and Perspectives)
AU - Venovska-Antevska, Snezhana
TI - National Identities Expressed Through Intercultural Communication in the Balkans (Current Conditions and Perspectives)
AB - 
	The Balkan region has always been a crossroad of cultures, religions, customs, ethnicities and, hence, research related to intercultural communications in this area in different periods gives different results. The actual ethnographic condition of the Balkans now, followed by statistic data, censuses, related to displacements, and the relevance of official data, creates the picture of languages that are used in the Balkans. In the 21st century different processes are going on, some fading out, and other finding room to activate (again) not only through languages and lexicon (active, passive and disappeared), but through other forms, too. The critical analysis of the discourse of Balkans witnesses the art of linking of differences through languages (Slavic, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian, Herzegovinian, Montenegrin; and non-Slavic: Greek, Turkish, Albanian, English) supplemented by nonverbal communication, as a wide space for building the impression of common conditions. All this reflects on the national identities and on the construction of diverse characteristics as a sum of diversities on the Balkans.
VL - 2017
IS - Tom XXVI
PY - 2018
SN - 2451-4993
C1 - 2543-733X
SP - 23
EP - 28
DO - 10.4467/2543733XSSB.17.020.8318
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/ssb/artykul/national-identities-expressed-through-intercultural-communication-in-the-balkans-current-conditions-and-perspectives
KW - national identity
KW - communication
KW - interculture
KW - Balkan
KW - languages
KW - lexicon
KW - Macedonian language
KW - Slavic and non-Slavic languages