Dialects and Standard Serbo Croat - a sociolinguistic approach Cover Image

Дијалекти и наш језички стандард - социолингвистички приступ проблему
Dialects and Standard Serbo Croat - a sociolinguistic approach

Author(s): Asim Peco
Subject(s): Phonetics / Phonology, Sociolinguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: Serbo-Croatian language; dialect; socio-linguistic; orthography; language standard;

Summary/Abstract: The author addresses several complex problems that arise with respect to complex relationship between Standard Serbo Croat and its present-day dialects. It is argued that various vernaculars permeate the standard Serbo Croat and that, varieties within the standard must not be any barrier to the change or modification within the standard Serbo Croat itself. It goes without saying that any language can only benefit from the richness and variety of its dialects, while any intolerance of the influence of the dialects upon the standard language will result in stagnation.

  • Issue Year: 14/1985
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 177-184
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Croatian, Serbian