Language Planning and National Identity in Croatia

1. Front Matter

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2. The Croatian Language Question in Context

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Croatian Language Question and Croatian Identity

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 3-16

   3. Language and Identity: Theoretical and Conceptual Framework

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 17-45

   4. Language, Dialect, or Variant? The Status of Croatian and Its Place in the South Slavic Dialect Continuum

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 46-74

   5. The History of Croatian and Serbian Standardization

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 75-112

3. Croatian Language Policy and Planning in the 1990s and Beyond

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      Pages 113-113

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   2. Language Rights and the Treatment of Croatian on the International Level

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 115-129

   3. Croatian Language Policy at the National Level and the Regulation of Public Language

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 130-146

   4. Institutions of Language Planning

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 147-172

   5. Language Purism, Handbooks, and Differential Dictionaries

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 173-211

   6. Models of Linguistic Perfection: The Role of the Educational System in Croatian Language Planning

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 212-246

   7. The Media and the Message: The Promotion and Implementation of Language Planning in Print, Broadcasts, and on the Internet

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 247-270

   8. The Croatian Language Question Today on the Boundary of Identity and Ideology

      • Keith Langston, Anita Peti-Stantić

      Pages 271-283

4. Back Matter

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Following the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, Croatian was declared to be a separate language, distinct from Serbian, and linguistic issues became highly politicized. This book examines the changing status and norms of the Croatian language and its relationship to Croatian national identity, focusing on the period after Croatian independence.

• Croatian language
• language planning
• sociolinguistics
• national identity
• concept
• history
• history of literature
• identity
• ideology
• independence
• language
• language policy
• media
• model
• planning
• policy
• purism
• standardization
• Yugoslavia

“The book would prove useful for linguistic scholars, particularly those focused on Slavic languages, as it provides a plethora of examples detailing the minutia of linguistic variation, both between Croatian and other former Yugoslav languages (particularly Serbian), as well as between different nationally-recognized, or sanctioned, versions of Croatian throughout varied time periods, or as produced by different scholars. … It adds greatly to the literature on Slavic languages, as well as socio-political scholarship of the former Yugoslavia.” (Jacquie L. Greiff, Language Policy, September, 2015)

• University of Georgia, USA

  Keith Langston

• University of Zagreb, Croatia

  Anita Peti-Stantić

Keith Langston is Associate Professor of Slavic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Georgia, USA. He is the author of ?akavian Prosody: The Accentual Patterns of the ?akavian Dialects of Croatian and other studies on Slavic phonology and morphology, in addition to research on the sociolinguistic situation in the former Yugoslavia.

Anita Peti-Stanti? is Professor of South Slavic Languages and the Chair of Slovene Studies at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the author of Language, Ours and/or Theirs: An Essay on the Comparative History of South Slavic Standardization Processes and a Slovenian-Croatian and Croatian-Slovenian Dictionary, as well as studies on South Slavic word order and clitic placement.

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