Saga o cirilici : ogledi o jeziku i nacionalizmu  The Saga of the Cyrillic Alphabet: Essays on Language and Nationalism 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2438051B

  Author(s)

  Bugarski, Ranko

  City

  Beograd 

  Country

  Serbia 

  Language

  Serbian (Roman) 

  ISBN

  9788675621591 

  Date of Publication

  2021 

  Publisher

  Biblioteka XX Vek  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  271 

  Subject

  Philology / Linguistics

  Subject

  Sociology

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Bugarski, Ranko

  Publisher

  Biblioteka XX Vek  

• Description

  The Saga of the Cyrillic Alphabet: Essays on Language and Nationalism This book contains contributions, mainly sociolinguistic topics, written and partially printed during the last three years (data on the earlier publication of some of them is given in the Bibliographical note at the end of it). The texts are divided into three groups. In the first, articles were created for various reasons or without a special reason, sometimes as additions to the material or comments contained in earlier discussions of a certain matter. The second group consists of a selection of interviews that the author gave in that period to colleagues for publication in professional periodicals and to journalists of printed (and to a lesser extent electronic) media. They are generally arranged chronologically, in order to see which topics were the most current at any given moment; there are inevitable repetitions, which the author hopes will not bother the reader much. The third group contains texts written in memory of prominent linguists who have passed away in recent years, as a continuation of the sad chronicle published in the author's previous books. At the end, there is a sociolinguistic bibliography for the period 2016–2021. In order to preserve authenticity and avoid the effect of afterthought (which is especially important for interviews of the "fast-paced" and mostly short-lived genre), all previously published contributions are transferred here without any content changes, with minor formal adaptations in some cases. As the subtitle of this collection suggests, the phenomenon that unites most of the texts, most often explicitly and sometimes from the shadows, is nationalism - a scourge that the writer has been dealing with from different perspectives for three decades now and which does not give him peace even in his advanced age. As painful as it may be, the pernicious effects of hard-line nationalism clearly must continue to be pointed out.