Title: ETHNICITY, NATIONALISM, RACE, MINORITY: A SEMANTIC/ONOMANTIC EXERCISE (PART TWO)
Abstract:Part One explained how the onomantic method supplements the semantic approach by helping scholars establish unequivocal terms for the various meanings of a term that they need to use. Illustrations we...Part One explained how the onomantic method supplements the semantic approach by helping scholars establish unequivocal terms for the various meanings of a term that they need to use. Illustrations were provided by an analysis of the most important meanings of ethnicity, for which terms like generic ethnicity; modern and premodern ethnicity; ethnie and ethnikos; nationalism or primary ethnicity, and secondary ethnicity were suggested. In Part Two further examples are provided based on the multiple meanings of race, minority, group, national, nationalism and nationality. By separating the quantitative from the qualitative meanings of minority, it becomes possible to distinguish between marginalised (disadvantaged) and dominant communities, and groups composing more or less than half of a given population. The notion of an ethnoracial community is distinguished from race as a biogenetic concept, and concepts of ethnoreligious and ethnolinguistic communities can be separated from religious and linguistic communities. The uses of nation to mean an ethnic nation, an ethnonation, a state nation, a nation-state and a national state are distinguished from each other.Read More
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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