Snježana Kordić

thumb|right|Linguists should describe language, not prescribe.— Snježana Kordić at the Pula Book Fair (2 December 2011) Snježana Kordić (born 29 October 1964) is a Croatian linguist. Quotes The long-form endings have pushed away the short-form endings completely in the oblique cases. In the last few years, there are attempts in Croatia to bring back again the short forms in the usage. This attempts are the part of the new sociolinguistic politics to bring back the archaic words and forms in the usage and to construct new words, neologisms, in place of customary words - all that with the aim to make the language in the west of the Serbo-Croatian language community as different as possible from the language in the east of the Serbo-Croatian language community. Leaders of the new language politics proclaim as incorrect what was customary, and as correct what was rare, archaic or even did not exist in the usage, and then they carry it out in practice through the control of the media, text-books etc. Such inversion of the criteria for what is correct and what is not correct in the language usage makes the native speakers unsure and frustrated. Kordić Snježana w:Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić Serbo-Croatian Languages of the World/Materials 148 Munich & Newcastle Lincom Europa 1997 18 3-89586-161-8 37959860 Qui veut être un linguiste conséquent doit appliquer de manière conséquente les critères linguistiques, et non les bricoler pour les conformer aux besoins de la politique, créant l’illusion qu’on se place encore sur le terrain de la science. Who wants to be a linguist must apply consistently linguistic criteria, not tinkering to comply with policy needs, creating the illusion that one stands still in the field of science. Kordić Snježana w:Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić Le serbo-croate aujourd’hui: entre aspirations politiques et faits linguistiques Revue des études slaves 75 1 40 2004 http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/slave_0080-2557_2004_num_75_1_6860 0080-2557 10.3406/SLAVE.2004.6860 (in French) thumb|right|— Frequency of demonstratives in Serbo-Croatian from Snježana Kordićʼs book Wörter im Grenzbereich von Lexikon und Grammatik im Serbokroatischen, Munich 2001, diagram on p. 135. I linguisti croati rifiutano le parole in uso presso la maggior parte della popolazione solo per dare artificiosamente corpo ad una diversità nei confronti della lingua parlata in Serbia. Croatian linguists proscribe words that are common to the majority of the Croatian people just to make a difference to the language in Serbia. Kordić Snježana w:Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić Purismo e censura linguistica in Croazia oggi Studi Slavistici 5 284 2008 http://www.fupress.net/index.php/ss/article/view/2943/8774 1824-7601 (in Italian) Fälle, in denen mehrere Nationen eine Sprache sprechen, werden in der Sprachwissenschaft als plurizentrische Sprachen behandelt. Cases where several nations speak the same language are treated in linguistics as pluricentric languages. Kordić Snježana w:Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić Moderne Nationalbezeichnungen und Texte aus vergangenen Jahrhunderten Zeitschrift für Balkanologie 46 1 41 2010 http://www.zeitschrift-fuer-balkanologie.de/index.php/zfb/article/view/222/222 0044-2356 (in German) El purismo aumenta el nacionalismo porque enseña a clasificar todo como croata o no croata, y a que todo lo que supuestamente proceda del propio país se diga que es bueno, mientras que de lo que proceda de otras naciones se diga que es perjudical y malo. Purism increases nationalism because it teaches that everything should be classified as Croatian or non-Croatian, and what comes from their own nation must be good, while what comes from other nations must be harmful and evil. Kordić Snježana w:Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić Lengua y Nacionalismo Kindle Edition: Doxa & Episteme Bibliotheca Balcanica 1 2021 22 (in Spanish) There is a large discrepancy between the linguistic reality and the language politics and relevant legislation in South Slavic countries. On the one hand, according to all criteria, the linguistic reality can be described as a typical pluricentric standard language with four standardized varieties. On the other hand, school children are being segregated in Bosnia-Herzegovina as if they speak different languages. In Croatia and Serbia, the segregation takes place in the name of minority language rights, ignoring that the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages gives a clear definition of a minority language that excludes the term ‘minority language’ in this case. Kordić Snježana w:Snježana Kordić Snježana Kordić Motoki Nomachi and Tomasz Kamusella Languages and Nationalism Instead of Empires Routledge Routledge Histories of Central and Eastern Europe 174 Ideology Against Language: The Current Situation in South Slavic Countries https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372202077 London 2024 10.4324/9781003034025-11 978-0-367-47191-0 1390118985 External links no no no no no no no Q442048 Works by Snježana Kordić on Open Library at the Internet Archive Publications by Snježana Kordić at ResearchGate Complete list of publications by Snježana Kordić at CroRIS Snježana Kordić profile at Google Scholar Snježana Kordić's Entry at ORCID Snježana Kordić at Publons Papers and books by Snježana Kordić in the SSRN (abstracts; full texts) 6645711 Snježana Kordić 1064607578 n97082676 84220416 0000-0001-5445-1921 344439 1064607578 0000 0001 1951 9767 Category:Science authors Category:Linguists from Germany Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:Women authors from Croatia Category:Academics from Croatia Category:Academics from Germany Category:Educators from Croatia Category:Educators from Germany Category:Linguists from Germany Category:People from Zagreb Category:Education activists Category:Women activists from Croatia Category:Secularists Category:German atheists Category:Pacifists Category:Critics Category:Vegetarians Category:Immigrants to Germany