Die Verräumlichung der bürokratischen Kommunikation durch politisch-juristische und verwaltungstechnische Institutionalisierung in Böhmen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. (German)

The spatialization of bureaucratic communication through politico-juridical and technical administrative institutionalization in Bohemia up until the First World War. (English)

Language has always been, is, and will be the most important means of communication. In the period of nationalization constituted by the nineteenth century, language thus became the subject of political in-fighting in the Habsburg Monarchy in general and, after 1867, in the Austrian half of the state (Cisleithania), because it served as a means of official communication between the state bureaucracy, self-governing bodies (such as the municipalities) and citizens. The main conflicts in the second half of the nineteenth century were, in fact, struggles about the form of bureaucratic communication used by the state and self-governing institutions. This analysis looks not only at the emergence of legislation on the use of language in bureaucratic communication between 1848 and 1914, but also at the manner of its implementation in administrative practice in the Kingdom of Bohemia, especially in relation to self-governing bodies and the attempts by political representatives to create administrative 'frontiers' between Czech and Germans on the language border (isogloss). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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