Zaštitni mehanizmi jezičnih zajednica
Defense Mechanisms of Language Communities

Summary/Abstract: Nations whose identity is based on their language have various strategies to defend their language from external influence. Their speakers are aware of the importance of that preservation to different degrees. Some societies implement this preservation through institutions or leave it to individuals, while in others there is linguistic anarchy. In the field, there are no obvious parallels between social and linguistic structures. Extreme anarchy is opposed by extreme purism, and the article highlights some positive examples of possible solutions applicable to other nations, not only for the sake of preserving unthreatened languages from barbarisms but ultimately for the survival of languages and nations in general.

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