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« Table of contents Mikalai Biaspamiatnykh LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY IN TRANSFORMING BORDERLANDS
(CASE OF NORTH-WEST BELARUS) // Coactivity. Vilnius: Technika, 2007, Vol. 15, No. 1 , p. 55-67.  Dept of Cultural Studies, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno,
Belarus E-mail: m.biasp@tut.byAbstract. The North-West region of Belarus as an ethno-cultural bordering area demonstrates the tendency towards linguistic homogeneity with the sustainability of the identities of its communities. On the basis of a constructivistic approach the models of the identification process in the region are grounded. In the framework of these models the opportunities of interpretation of the present-day linguistic structure and specificity of linguistic processes are revealed. Keywords: ethnic and cultural borderlands, ethnic boundaries, identity. | 
