Социолингвистички аспект распада Jугославиjе Српско национално питање

Abstract

This monography is a synthesis of one part of a wider study upon the reasons and the stream of the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The research object of this book is to examine sociolinguistic feature of the break up of the former Yugoslavia observed from the prism of Serbian national question covering the period from 1967 to 1995. The importance of the theme of this work might be seen from the fact that at the end of the Cold War era and a bipolar division of the world (1949–1991) on the territory of the European continent the acts of ethnic cleansing and genocide within the wider context of the civil/confessional war occurred only on the ground of ex-Yugoslavia for the sake of creation of the united ethnonational states. Ideological elements of such a politics partially have been grounded on the linguistic-philological foundations of lingustic-national determination and cultural groupings of the Yugoslav citizens as one of the crucial criteria for the fixing of the political borders of separate independent ethnonational states in stead of one united supra-national Yugoslavia. “Linguistic engineering”, or “linguistic chirurgic”, was implied for the final aim to create independently standardized national languages within officially common Serbo-Croatian, or Croato-Serbian, language by deepening and using as much as the dialectical/regional differences of the same language. The ultimate result was that minor speaking differences were proclaimed for the national characteristics and as such have been used to be the foundations of the newly declared autonomous national languages. Consequently, common Serbo-Croatian, or Croato-Serbian, language cessed to exist and with him and a common Serbo-Croatian nationality. [...]