The Nation-building linguist: on the status and ideologies oflanguage planning institutions inpost-1990s Croatia and Lithuania

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Knygos dalis / Part of the book
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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
The Nation-building linguist: on the status and ideologies oflanguage planning institutions inpost-1990s Croatia and Lithuania
Authors:
Vukotić, Vuk
In the Book:
In pursuit of societal harmony: reviewing the experiences and approaches in officially monolingual and officially multilingual countries. P. 169-196.. Bloemfontein: African sun Media, 2017
Summary / Abstract:

ENThe national language became the central distinguishing feature of some nations that gained independence after the fall of the Berlin wall. In two such countries, Croatia and Lithuania, ‘pure language’ became a national value very quickly, and campaigns for the purification of language were started. Through these processes, language experts were included in a much broader process of building up a new national identity, and a number of new language planning (LP) institutions were established for this reason. The aim of this paper is to compare the legal status of LP institutions, as well as the ideologies behind their work on LP in Croatia and Lithuania. The comparative study is structured around several (1) legal documents, reports and programmes concerning LP and LP institutions, (2) professional publications in the field of what I here call Croatian/Lithuanian ‘post-1990 language planning scholarship’ – articles that describe, comment and provide future plans for LP; and (3) news articles concerning issues in LP and LP institutions. These are used to illuminate the legal status and ideological positions that guide the work of LP institutions in Croatia and Lithuania.

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Kalbotyra / Linguistics
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2022-01-09 19:58:45
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