„Dometi jednog priručnika“. O „Pravopisnom priručniku hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika” Vladimira Anića i Josipa Silića
„The Scope of a Manual”. About the „Pravopisni priručnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika” by Vladimir Anić and Josip Silić

Summary/Abstract: In the mid 1980s the publication of Vladimir Anić and Josip Silić's Pravopisni priručnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika stirred much debate about the orthographic norm and the orthographic policies. The paper thoroughly analyzes „the genesis of Pravopisni priručnik“ and the reception of this orthographic manual on the part of the (professional) public. The author particularly focuses on the orthographic policies in the period following the Second World War and the language policies in the 1980s as well as the attempt of the high-ranking Party officials in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia to institutionalize a „common language policy“ which would include a „common orthography of Serbo-Croatian/Croato-Serbian, Croatian or Serbian standard language“ which would in turn be applied in all four republics. The publication of Anić and Silić's orthography reference book in such a context serves as the confirmation of Croatian autonomy in shaping of the orthographic norm of the standard language.

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