%0 Journal Article
%T Południowosłowiańskie wyobrażenia o języku narodowym. Standaryzacja serbskiego i chorwackiego języka literackiego w kontekście slawistyki w I połowie XIX wieku
%A Kubik, Damian
%J Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2013
%R 10.4467/20843933ST.13.004.2004
%N Volume 8, Issue 2
%P 53-69
%K Serbian and Croatian literary language, standardization, Slavic philology in the nineteenth century, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Ljudevit Gaj.
%@ 1897-3035
%D 2014
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-litteraria-uic/artykul/poludniowoslowianskie-wyobrazenia-o-jezyku-narodowym-standaryzacja-serbskiego-i-chorwackiego-jezyka-literackiego-w-kontekscie-slawistyki-w-i-polowie-xix-wieku
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	South Slavic Idea of National Language. Standardization of Serbian and Croatian Literary
	Language in the Context of Slavic Studies in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

	
	The paper discusses selected problems of the complicated process of Serbian and Croatian
	language standardization during “national revival” in contrast to Slavists’ ideas. The newly
	founded discipline, Slavic philology, launched research into “language” understood as an indicator
	of national differentiation which influences other cultural and national factors. This paper
	supports a thesis that language was one of the most significant factors of national identification
	for the Croats and Serbs, and it analyses the most important moments in this process.
	In the description of South Slavic languages, Slavists were aware of a huge and essential
	linguistic diversity, but Slavistic classifications included mainly Serbian language.
	Another point presented in this paper is the description of Serbian and Croatian activity
	aimed at researching their national language and popularizing it, therefore the paper focuses
	mainly on the specific features of Lj. Gaj’s and Vuk Karadžić’s ideas concerning language.
	The paper concludes with an observation that linguistic criterion, originally constituting
	a factor of nation differentiation, for the Croats and Serbs gradually became− under mistaken
	belief that linguistic similarity is reflected in the similarity of culture − the main component of
	community projects that appeared in the nineteenth century among the South Slavs.