Attitudes towards linguistic purism in Croatia: Evaluating efforts at language reform

Peti‐Stantić, Anita; Langston, Keith

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“…Okuka (1998) , Langston (1999) , and Langston and Peti -Stanti ć (2003) cite numerous examples of metalinguistic discourses in the political sphere (speeches, declarations, party programs) and in the media -discourses in which strategies of differentiation, of emphasizing language boundaries between Serbian and Croatian and Bosnian, of evoking the idealized past of a ' pure ' language are apparent. Nevertheless, oppositional voices were also present, especially through the independent media, in which sarcastic comments on language purism were frequent (Busch 2001 : 158).…”

Section: Designing and Implementing Language Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New National Languages in Eastern Europe

Busch¹

2010

The Handbook of Language and Globalization

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Section: Designing and Implementing Language Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New National Languages in Eastern Europe

Busch¹

2010

The Handbook of Language and Globalization

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“…3 While the denomination BCMS is widespread in the linguistic community, Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian and Montenegrin are also seen as separate languages, depending on the definition and approach one adopts when dealing with them. There is an extended body of literature about the controversy of BCMS and whether and under which aspects it can be considered one language (see Langston & Peti-Stantić, 2003 ; Gröschel, 2009 ; Bugarski, 2000 ; Kapović, 2010 ; Kordić, 2010 ). For reasons of consistency, in this paper we use the term BCMS to denominate these language(s), although the variety from Montenegro is not included in our data.…”

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Map Task Corpus of Heritage BCMS spoken by second-generation speakers in Switzerland

Lemmenmeier-Batinić

Batinić

Escher

2023

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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In this paper, we present a corpus for heritage Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian (BCMS) spoken in German-speaking Switzerland. The corpus consists of elicited conversations between 29 second-generation speakers originating from different regions of former Yugoslavia. In total, the corpus contains 30 turn-aligned transcripts with an average length of 6 min. It is enriched with extensive speakers’ metadata, annotations, and pre-calculated corpus counts. The corpus can be accessed through an interactive corpus platform that allows for browsing, querying, and filtering, but also for creating and sharing custom annotations. Principal user groups we address with this corpus are researchers of heritage BCMS, as well as students and teachers of BCMS living in diaspora. In addition to introducing the corpus platform and the workflows we adopted to create it, we also present a case study on BCMS spoken by a pair of siblings who participated in the map task, and discuss advantages and challenges of using this corpus platform for linguistic research.

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To What Degree Are Croatian and Serbian the Same Language?: Evidence from a Translation Study

Bailyn¹

2010

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This article reports on the results of an experimental translation study conducted in 2008 in which 16 adult native speakers of the Croatian variant of Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS) were asked to translate nine texts from the Serbian BCS variant into their native Croatian variant in order to test the extent to which Croatian and Serbian do or do not employ distinct linguistic devices. The results show, on the basis of a statistical comparison of the purely grammatical building blocks in the original texts and their translations, that the Croatian and Serbian variants of BCS have essentially identical linguistic systems across all levels of language structure. In particular, we find that the phonological and syntactic systems are essentially identical and that over 98% of derivational and inflectional morphology tokens are identical. Lexically, the open classes show a difference of less than 10% of tokens, whereas the closed grammatical classes show identity in over 95% of cases.

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Attitudes towards linguistic purism in Croatia: Evaluating efforts at language reform

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New National Languages in Eastern Europe

New National Languages in Eastern Europe

Map Task Corpus of Heritage BCMS spoken by second-generation speakers in Switzerland

To What Degree Are Croatian and Serbian the Same Language?: Evidence from a Translation Study

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