title: The normative isomorphism of language, nation and state
abstract: Language has crucial ideological importance for, arguably, all nationalisms in Central and Eastern Europe. It constitutes the very basis of these nationalisms, which permits to speak of ethnolinguistic nationalism as the prevalent form of nationalism in this part of Europe. Significantly, in no other region in the world, ethnolinguistic nationalism has become the norm of doing politics and of statehood and peoplehood formation and legitimization. After 1918, Central and Eastern Europe were reorg