Issues Concerning the Language Standardisation – Theoretical View

  • Marina Nikolić Institute for the Serbian Language, The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Keywords: standard language, neo-standard, media, Serbian language

Abstract


Monitoring and evaluating changes in standard languages, especially in Serbian, in the twenty-first century are the focus of this work. In order to determine the situation in the current norm, it is necessary to consider the Serbian language within the context of contemporary European languages. Challenges arising in the process of standardisation of the Serbian language (such as the language democratisation stemming from the democratisation of society, modernisation, rapid establishment of a gender-sensitive language and insisting on its use, social network terms, etc.), but likewise the needs that such a language should cover, are common with those in other European languages.

The principal aim is to shed light on changes in the traditional Serbian language generating a parallel norm, which we refer to as ʻneo-standardʼ, and whose formation is predominantly influenced by the media. The second objective is to exactly and thoroughly determine the reasons for the emergence of neo-standard, which, as previous research have shown, are common in all European languages.

References

Микетић, С. (2017). Ставови према језику код студентске популације у Републици Србији (необјављена докторска дисертација). Филолошки факултет, Београд.

Николић, М. (2010). Теорија језичке културе: у науци о српском језику и славистици. Београд: Институт за српски језик САНУ.

Пипер, П. (2004). Српски између великих и малих језика. Београд: Београдска књига.

Танасић, С. (2018). Двадесет година Одбора за стандардизацију српског језика. Наш језик, ХLIX (1), 13–26.

Auer, P. (2017). The German neo-standard in a Europa context. In: G. Stickel (Ed.), National language institutions and national languages. Contributions to the EFNIL Conference 2017 in Mannheim. Budapest: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. http://www.efnil.org/documents/conference-publications/mannheim-2017/EFNIL-Mannheim-10-Auer.pdf

Baldi, J. F. (2018). En France, un droit et une institution au service de la politique linguistique. In: G. Stickel (Ed.), National language institutions and national languages. Contributions to the EFNIL Conference 2017 in Mannheim. Budapest: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. http://www.efnil.org/documents/conference-publications/mannheim-2017/EFN IL-Mannheim-26-Baldi.pdf

Berruto, G. (1987). Sociolinguistica dell’italiano contemporaneo. Rome: La Nuova Italia Scientifica.

Crystal, D. (2004). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kristal, D. (2003). Smrt jezika. Beograd: XX vek.

Panel discussion. In: G. Stickel (Еd.), National language institutions and national languages. Contributions to the EFNIL Conference 2017 in Mannheim. Budapest: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. http://www.efnil.org/documents/conference-publications/mannheim-2017/EFNIL-Mannheim-33-Title4-Panel.pdf

Simeon, R. (1969). Enciklopedijski rječnik lingvističkih naziva, I, II. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska.

Sredojević, D. (2018). O restandardizaciji akcenatske norme srpskog jezika. У: С. Гудурић, Б. Радић Бојанић (ур.), Језици и културе у времену и простору (185–198). Нови Сад: Филозофски факултет.

Tavoni, M. (2002). Caratteristiche dell’italiano contemporaneo e insegnamento della scrittura. In: Manuale dell’italiano professionale. Teoria e didattica, a cura di Francesco Bruni e Tommaso Raso (139–152). Bologna: Zanichelli.

Tošović, B. (2002). Funkcionalni stilovi (Funktionale Stile). Graz: Institut für Slawistik der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.

Tošović, B. (2015). Internet stilistika. Moskva: Flinta http://www-gewi.uni-gra z.at/gralis-alt/GraLiS_TB/Bibliographie/pdf/Tosovic_Internet-stilistika_20 15.pdf

Published
2020/12/18
Section
Original Scientific Paper