Table of Contents

1. Language boundaries as social, political and discursive constructs Brigitta Busch and Helen Kelly-Holmes 2. A Linguist on the Train to Vienna Dubravko Skiljan (Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Slovenia) 3. Language and Boundaries in the Yugoslav Context Ranko Bugarski (University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia) 4. Troubled Multicultural Broadcasting in Macedonia Dona Kolar- Panov (Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Republic of Macedonia) 5. Debate 6.Language, ethnicity and cultural boundaries in Ukraine: A response to the papers and debate Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Kharkiv National University, Ukraine and University of Vienna, Austria) 7. Language, Borders, Identity: A response to Ranko Bugarski Marija Mitrovic (Universita di Trieste, Italy) 8. Semantics of War in Former Yugoslavia: A response to the papers and debate Melitta Richter Malabotta (Universita di Trieste, Italy).

About the Author

Brigitta Busch works as a senior research fellow at the Institute for Applied Linguistics at Vienna University, Austria. She studied Slavistics and Communication at Klagenfurt University. She also worked from 1992-2002 as an expert for the Council of Europe's Confidence Building Measures Programme in South-Eastern Europe. Her main research interests cover sociolinguistics (multilingualism in media and education), discourse analysis and intercultural communication.Helen Kelly-Holmes is a Research Scholar in the Department of Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland. Her main research interests include intercultural aspects of market and media discourses.