Nations Forming Bosnia and Herzegovina and their Linguistic Identity Cover Image

Peuples constitutifs et identités linguistiques en Bosnie-Herzégovine
Nations Forming Bosnia and Herzegovina and their Linguistic Identity

Author(s): Samir Bajrić
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: constituent peoples;official languages;ethnicities;linguistic affiliations;linguistic identities;Croatian;Serbian;Bosnian;languages or languages denominations;linguistic claims;

Summary/Abstract: This paper revives the need to rethink the language concepts (national, official and other), nation and state constitution by subjecting them to the study of (intractable) features created by the Bosnian cohabitation. The names imposed by the Dayton Agreement (1995) and referring to political entities as well as peoples and minorities concerned, such as Bosniak-Croat Federation / Muslim-Croat, Republika Srpska (Serb political entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina), Croats / Bosnian Croats, Serbs / Bosnian Serbs, Bosnians, Bosniaks / Muslims, Bosnian-Muslims, etc., create a broad area where intermingle and overlap language demands and multiethnic / multireligious realities.

  • Issue Year: 63/2015
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 81-99
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: French