Discourse of Minority Languages, Literatures and Cultures in Southeast and Central Europe

The discourse of minority languages, literatures and cultures in southeast and central Europe comprises a diverse and complex set of issues of languages and cultures in contact. Simultaneously it covers the development of languages and cultures which have had their own independent development and direction, paralleled in the genetic and typological courses of native languages and cultures as well as in their own original independent contexts. In order to cover the essential inner plains and research possibilities the project will be focused on the level of contact (exosphere). The next segment represents the existential level of endosphere with all of its ecolinguistic characteristics and features of cultural ecology. The project, on the one hand, has a system of topics which, on the other hand, determine the borders of languages, literatures and cultures (and inside them). Such research strategy enables the grouping of researchers focused on e.g. lexical, grammatical, textual etc. regionalisms as well as Europeisms and internationalisms, i.e. characteristics of the local literary and cultural discourse, but also on the acceptance of world trends in the minority cultural space. The project is categorized as basic research and requires an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, which is why, from the perspective of research capacities, it is very demanding in the organizational sense.