Književnojezička politika 1970–1990 – borba za zajedništvo i ravnopravnost
Standard Language Policy in BiH 1970–1990 – Struggle for Unity and Equality

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author writes about the motive for establishing a concept of standard language policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1970s in the past century, the character of proclaimed principles, their application and the results of the application in the period extending to dissolution of the common standard language of Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croats and Serbs to specific standard languages. Within the frames of the mentioned contents he clarifies the linguistic situation in the area which was covered by a common standard language, the theoretic approaches to the standard language itself as to a language of nationally un-homogeneous community, the tendencies of unification and differentiation in its norm on the general level and the endeavor to preserve the common standard language with a norm suitable to all its users, established on the conjunctive principle. According to the author, the concept of standard language policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina was permeated by a democratic ideal in all its manifestations - the equality in communication for all its users in the standard language communion, so the results did not fail to come. In the nineties the application of this concept stopped not because of its weaknesses but due to the change of social reality in these areas. The author considers that the period of functioning of this concept was aurea aetas of the science in language in Bosnia and Herzegovina, concerning both the orientations which permeated it and the achieved results as well.

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