Pojava jezičkog nacionalizma u bivšoj Jugoslaviji: slučaj dva dokumenta
Appearing of Linguistic Nationalism in Former Yugoslavia: A Case of Two Documents

Summary/Abstract: In this statement the author analyses phaenomena of linguistic nationalism, as the ground for reconstitution of the ethnic integral nationalism in former Yugoslavia, helping each other and making stronger each other, by discovering of kindred and common cultural groundings of ethnic communities. By crystallizing of the national language it is a process of refreshing and confirmation of a national identity, intending through „authentic spirit“, and building the mobilization of a people, by the reason to preserve a subjective and a political liberty of a nation, inspired by the literary perspectives of her golden ages, where the national language brings us, as a certainly keeper from the historical degeneration and assimilation. Language struggles alone talk to us about the social (nationalism) struggles. Language imperialism is always sign of a economic, cultural and a politic imperialism, who is given in the rigid frames of a state boundaries. On the back-ground of war between the languages, it seems to be the war by other facilities. Declaration about the name and the status of Croatian literary language, and Serbian answer in the shape of a Contribution for the considerations (1967), was the praelude in a multi-decennial discussion in a cultural, politic, and a national sphere. A tragic solution there resulted in a „third Balkan war“. Opinion that every language makes a circle around his people, from whom is exile possible by the transcending in the circle of some other language, has stayed outside, confirming once yet – „if the language is that by which we are people, then the languages are that what makes a peopleless /aberrant/ from us“ (N. Oesthler). Because of that we are not able to ignore the results of a struggle betveen languages. Their declamators may be very unsentimental.

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