Meaning of Balkanism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature originating or being geographically confined to the region of Balkans.
   countable, uncountable
2. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanism.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
3. Discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Balkanism attributes an essential character to the Balkan Peninsula that is the logical correlate of Balkanisation.”

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