Language loyalty and language shift in Bohemia in the long 19th century based on the language biography of Friedrich (Bedřich) Smetana

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-530430
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.53043

Nekula, Marek

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Language loyalty can be viewed from the perspective of both language stability and language shift. The paper focuses primarily on the latter as it shows how the Bohemian composer Friedrich Smetana (1824-1884) shifted from a predominate use of German to Czech in private and official correspondence and his diaries to become known as the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. This change serves as a model ...