English

Alternative forms

• balkanism

Noun

Balkanism ‎(plural Balkanisms)

1. 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.

2. (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.

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English

Noun

balkanism ‎(plural balkanisms)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanism