Abstract
The present article aims to outline basic methodological and theoretical issues that reveal themselves in the linguistic study of small ethnic groups in South- Eastern Europe, particularly in its Slavic part. The article (a) argues that sociolinguistic and ethnolinguistic approaches to the study of small ethnic groups could contribute significantly to the research of possible strategies for the construction of their identity, (b) discusses theoretical and methodological approaches applied by researchers dealing with languages of particular minorities in the region, and (c) underscores the complexity of issues that arise when sociolinguistic and ethnolinguistic situations of various ethnic groups are compared. Possible directions for the development of linguistic methods in the research of small ethnic groups are also discussed.
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