ЕЗИКОВАТА ДЕМОКРАТИЗАЦИЯ И ЕЗИКОВАТА КУЛТУРА В КОНТЕКСТА НА ПУБЛИЧНАТА РЕЧ
LANGUAGE DEMOCRATIZATION AND LANGUAGE CULTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PUBLIC SPEECH

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the democratization of the Bulgarian literary language, interpreted in its four aspects: social, functional, personal and interstructural. Pseudodemocratization processes and trends are discussed and a number of examples are given. The general conclusion is that, in its overall development, the modern literary language is undoubtedly democratized, and this is a long-standing trend whose aim was, and should continue to be, to raise the demos to the literary language in the future. Standardology experts’ modern assessment of the normalisation and codification of modern literary language is that they are extremely democratized in every respect: in terms of spelling, form and word usage, and spelling. In retrospect, changes have been made progressively and without turmoil, with public debate towards the democratization of the literary language according to the four commentary criteria although they were not consciously or explicitly stated. A really important task for the Bulgarian codifiers today, however, is to find the mechanisms that will protect the Bulgarian language community from pseudo-democratization from the false notion that everything is allowed, that democratization has a utilitarian side, but is not in simplification. The task of the modern codifier, in other words, is not to lower the codification to the demos, but rather to raise the demos to it.

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