Naslov
The War of the Words

Autori
Sunić, Tomislav

Izvornik
CROWN: Croatian World Network

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, ostalo

Godina
2005

Ključne riječi
hrvatski jezik, hrvatski jezik u SFRJ, jezična represija
(Croatian language, Croatian language in the SFRY, linguistic repression)

Sažetak
Even before a war starts shaking up a new country, fights about national languages abound. The endless debate surrounding the Croatian language may have been the prime motive that turned the former Yugoslavia into a pulverized powder keg. For every nation, language and religion constitute two main pillars of national identity ; without its language, the nation melts away into a wider structure of anonymous denizens using often bizarre idioms. The hybrid "Serbo-Croatian" language was not only an oxymoron - it was primarily a political ploy for bringing two different peoples into a unitary unnatural whole. With the establishment of the new state of Croatia in 1991, there was a public outcry to purify the Croatian language of all Serbian words, and to show the world Croatian distinctiveness -- often at the expense of doctoring up new and bizarre words.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija, Filologija

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