Language in the Former Yugoslav Lands
Edited by Celia Hawkesworth and Ranko Bugarski
325 p., 2004 (ISBN 0-89357-298-5), $29.95.


Contents

Introduction

Prelude: Ranko Bugarski: Overview of the linguistic aspects of the disintegration of former Yugoslavia

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Milorad Radovanovic: From Serbo-Croatian to Serbian: external and internal language developments

Ljubomir Popovic: From standard Serbian through Serbo-Croatian to standard Serbian

Dubravka Valic Nedeljkovic: Education and mass media in the languages of ethnic communities in Vojvodina

Robert Greenberg: From Serbo-Croatian to Montenegrin? Politics of language in Montenegro

Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Dubravko Skiljan: From Serbo-Croatian to Croatian: Croatian linguistic identity

Damir Kalogjera: Serbo-Croatian into Croatian: fragment of a chronicle

Dunja Jutronic: Standard Croatian and Croatian dialects today: the Cakavian lexicon in Split

Josip Baotic: The language situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Slovenia, Macedonia, Kosovo: Svein Monnesland: Is there a Bosnian language?

Albina Necak Luk: Language policy and language planning issues in Slovenia

Olga Miseska Tomic: Standard Macedonian and its current relationship to the Macedonian dialects

Victor A. Friedman: Language planning and status in the Republic of Macedonia and in Kosovo

Serbo-Croatian (Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian) Abroad: Paul-Louis Thomas: Serbo-Croatian and its successors in France

Gerhard Neweklowsky: Serbo-Croatian and its successors in Austria

Sven Gustavsson: Serbo-Croatian and its successors in the Nordic countries

Wayles Browne: Serbo-Croatian and its successors in the United States

Celia Hawkesworth: Serbo-Croatian and its successors in British universities

Language Abuse and Yugoslav Disintegration: Ivo Zanic: Hate speech in Croatia: historical and political context and current vicious circle

Ivan Colovic: Priests of language: the nation, poetry and the cult of language

Ranko Bugarski: Envoi: towards peace discourse