Nacija i standardnojezička varijanta
Nation and standard language

Summary/Abstract: The phenomenon of variant dissemination of standard language has drawn a greter and greater attention of the researchers in recent times. It is manifested in the parallel existence of two or more variants of a single standard language, as its differentiated uses in different socio-cultural and national environments. Certain correlation between the national and the variant has been observed in this respect, which led to determining the standard language variant according to the national character of the given environment. The paper analyzes the national-variant relation, in the light of recent research of numerous instances of standard language variants. It criticizes as groundless the isomorphism of the national regarding the variant, especially in respect of the existing definition of a variant and underlines the need for reconsideration and revaluation of this definition. In this respect, the author stresses three essential constitutive factors of the formation of standard language variants, regardless of their manifesting manner: the factor of territorial detachment, the factor of the composition of the given socio-cultural environment and the factor of being conditioned by communication. The fundamental notion is that of the socio-cultural environment which allows the satisfactory manner of defining the standard language variant in the entirety of its manifesting forms.

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