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https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2016.39.01
Croatian Language Standardization and the Production of Nationalized Political Subjects through Language? Perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Andrew Hodges
orcid.org/0000-0002-4505-7794
; Centar za napredne studije – jugoistočna Europa, Sveučilište u Rijeci, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Amelia Abercrombie
; Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Marina Balažev
orcid.org/0000-0002-6241-4343
; Ministarstvo znanosti i obrazovanja Republike Hrvatske, Zagreb, Hrvatska
James Costa
orcid.org/0000-0002-2317-2804
; Department of Linguistics / LACITO Research Laboratory (UMR CNRS 7107), Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France
Mate Kapović
orcid.org/0000-0001-7938-4323
; Odsjek za lingvistiku, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jelena Marković
orcid.org/0000-0002-7436-6190
; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Tanja Petrović
orcid.org/0000-0001-8105-8797
; Institut za kulturalne studije i studije sećanja, Naučnoistraživački centar Slovenačke akademije nauka i umetnosti (ZRC SAZU), Ljubljana, Slovenija
Ivana Spasić
orcid.org/0000-0002-4645-1160
; Odeljenje za sociologiju, Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Beograd, Srbija
Sažetak
This paper focuses on language policy and social changes which have taken place in Croatia during and since the 1991-5 war. I first describe the historical background, the war and the nineties being marked by excesses of linguistic purism and prescriptivism, alongside the formation of post-Yugoslav states in which national belonging was key to defining citizenship. Through examining the relationship between changing linguistic and social orders, I raise a number of issues for discussion. I argue that the legal framework of minority language rights has consolidated and legitimated a nationalist imaginary, increasing social divisions and reinforcing hierarchies asserted by some nationalists between national categories. For this reason, I suggest that the uncritical endorsement of or promotion of linguistic diversity can be dangerous. Second, in an activist-anthropological vein, I discuss possible reasons why academics trained in the social sciences and humanities have rarely participated in sociolinguistic debates concerning the new Croatian standard. I suggest such discussions could greatly benefit from interventions by social scientists, so as to bring sociolinguistics into contact with other strands of the social sciences and humanities and move away from what I believe to be a problematic policy focus on "identity".
Ključne riječi
language policy; activism; linguistic anthropology; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
170999
URI
Datum izdavanja:
21.12.2016.
Posjeta: 3.513 *