Original scientific paper

A New State – a New Language Policy

Branka Barić orcid.org/0000-0002-0701-8647

Abstract

Language is the most important human achievement, enabling functio¬ning of society at its many levels. It enables communication between in¬dividuals from the same language group and builds their linguistic reality. Like all other properties of political societies, language has to be regulated and normed. This was always the realm of states or leading elites that tried to organize governments at certain territories. Language was often used to achieve a strong national homogeneity through feeling of belonging, or iden¬tification with the language. More organized processes of language planning and language politics appear with the establishment of nation states in the 19th century. In modern times the role of the state was taken over by public media, including daily newspapers that influence the formation of public language.
In this paper we analyze the lexical forms of daily papers in order to notice and register certain changes that Croatian language experienced in the period of 15 years since the formation of the modern Croatian state in 1991.

Keywords

language policy; language planning; Croatian standard language; media style

Hrčak ID:

137621

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/137621

Publication date:

31.3.2015.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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