Croatology, Vol. 14 No. 1, 2023.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.59323/k.14.1.15
Novi Sad Memorandum on Croatian Language and Academic Teaching and Study of Croatian in Serbia
Tomislav Ćužić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
It would seem that the establishment of the latest Croatian language lectorate at foreign universities has not been given much attention in Croatian articles, so this paper, in the context of looking at the international recognition of the Croatian language in the 21st century, tries to warn about the establishment of one of them, namely a lectorate that has an undoubted symbolic weight, given that it operates in an environment that is traditionally not overly inclined towards the Croatian language as a separate standard language idiom. Namely, in the light of university teaching of the Croatian language in Serbia, the paper analyzes the fundamental features of the Memorandum of Agreement on the establishment of the Croatian language and literature lectorate at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad, especially in the context of the Novi Sad agreement and the Memorandum of the Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the relevant document is defined here as the Novi Sad Croatian-language memorandum. The function and purpose of that lectorate is discussed from the point of view of the position of the Croatian language in the Serbian education system, and the learning/teaching of the Croatian language at the university level is contextualized in multiple ways. The further perspective of its learning/teaching at that level is also discussed.
Keywords
Novi Sad Memorandum on Croatian language; lectorate of croatian language; teaching and study of Croatian language
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306414
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Publication date:
1.7.2023.
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