Sinkronijska gledišta o pisanju i normiranju navodnika i polunavodnika u hrvatskome jeziku
Syncronic aspect of writing and standardization of single and double quotation marks in the Croatian language

Summary/Abstract: paper on synchronic aspects of writing and standardization of single and double quotation marks is the second and final part of the study on quotation characters in the Croatian language. Quotation marks are examined from three research perspectives: the orthographic and sociolinguistic perspective, the linguographic and computational perspective, as well as the terminological perspective. Of the thirty characters in five punctuation subcategories with the feature of a quotation mark in the Unicode system, fifteen of them are Latinic (8 quotation marks and 7 single quotation marks). Croatian orthographic books use six of eight quotation marks („ “ » « ” " plus two graphemes that do not exist in Unicode) and all seven single quotation marks (‚ ‛ ’ ‘ ' › ‹ plus one other non-standardized grapheme). Two models of nomenclature for the terminological norming of all existing quotation marks are suggested (not only for signs that have been used or are still used in the Croatian language): one that is founded in a graphic, graphemic description, and one that is founded in terminological transparency. In place of a discussion on the choice of graphemes in the Croatian linguistic norm, all relevant quotation marks and single quotation marks are evaluated by seven criteria (orthographic tradition and continuity, frequency, transparency, legibility, typographic aesthetics, computational acceptance, and distinctiveness), and three normative models are suggested for the Croatian graphemic standard for quotation marks.

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