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Vera Vasić: APPLIED LINGUISTICS IN HONOUR OF RANKO BUGARSKI
The linguistic data analysed mostly come from Serbo-Croatian (or its standard
variants) and English, although examples from languages such as French,
Portuguese, Hungarian, Greek, Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Arabic, Malay
and Japanese are occasionally cited.
Festschrifts are notoriously miscellaneous collections. In this instance,
rather than adopting a straightforward alphabetical order, it was possible to group
the articles loosely into three sections, within each of which some degree of logical
ordering by topic has been sought.
Part One (Language, Society and Politics) contains seven papers of a
markedly sociolinguistic nature. The first two deal with language and culture
contacts. Victor A.Friedman discovers and explores parallels between the language
situations of Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe, while Biljana Mišić Ilić
distinguishes between two varieties of English-influenced Serbian, one in Serbia
itself and the other in the anglophone diaspora. Ronelle Alexander then expounds
her view of the linguistically and sociolinguistically intriguing process of dissolution
of Serbo-Croatian. Next, Vesna Požgaj Hadži and Tatjana Balažic Bulc
analyse, by means of a questionnaire, the attitudes towards different languages
existing in Slovene society. The last three papers are from the domain of language
policy. Jelena Filipović proposes a new approach to language policy and planning
in standard-language cultures, Vera Klopčič reviews the relevant international
documents concerned with the protection of linguistic and cultural rights of the
Roma, and Jagoda Granić discusses the relations between language, freedom and
social power in a political context.
Part Two (Using and Teaching Language) brings together six contributions,
the first three of which deal with pragmatics and discourse analysis. Igor
Lakić asks what discourse analysis actually is, arriving at an all-encompassing
definition of discourse. Slavica Perović offers a detailed analysis of the speech act
of apology, whereas Vera Vasić examines election fliers as a means of propaganda.
Problems of mother-tongue competence and the integration of speakers, particularly
immigrants, into the larger community are the topic of György Szépe’s
concern, while the issue of intercultural communicative competence in a foreign
language is discussed by Tatjana Paunović on the basis of student responses to a
questionnaire. This section ends with a consideration of the pedagogical potential
of cognitive linguistics by Zoltán Kövecses, who shows how the comparative
analysis of idioms and conceptual metaphors can increase the motivation for foreign
language learning.
The first three articles of Part Three (Development and Structure of Language)
are concerned, respectively, with language evolution in the phylogenetic,
ontogenetic and sociogenetic perspective. Tijana Ašić reports on some recent re-
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