Zašto možemo govoriti o posebnom hrvatskom književnom jeziku
Why Is lt Possible to Speak of a Separate Croatian Language?

Summary/Abstract: For reasons of its topicality and the good solutions offered, we are reprinting the "Treatise on Standard Croatian" by Petar Guberina, published in 1940 in his book, co-authored by Kruno Krstic. Differences Between Standard Croatian and Serbian. Using F. de Saussure’s structuralist and Ch. Bally's stylistic methods, the author argues the autonomy of Standard Croatian. He emphasizes that, in evaluating standard-language phenomena, the various levels should be respected approaching the phenomena from synchronic, standard-language and stylistic viewpoints. Diachrony, dialectology and any other standard language, however close, must be disregarded. Since language practice can use the units from various systems, the author underlines the importance of the stylistic values of such phenomena. Frequently, a stylistic system does not produce identical stylistic values, which makes the stylistic level exceptionally important, a fact often neglected thus far.

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