Snježana Kordić (; born 29 October 1964)
is a
Croatia
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linguist
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. In addition to her
work
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** House work, housework, or homemaking
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in
syntax
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, she has written on
sociolinguistics
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.
Kordić is known among non-specialists for numerous
articles
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against the
puristic and
prescriptive
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language policy in Croatia. Her 2010 book on language and nationalism popularises the theory of
pluricentric language
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s in the Balkans.
Biography
Education
Snježana Kordić obtained a degree from
Osijek University (1988) and an
M.Sci. in Linguistics from the
Faculty of Philosophy
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at the
Zagreb University
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(1992).
She earned her
Ph.D.
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in
Zagreb
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(1993).
In
Germany
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she obtained a
habilitation
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in
Slavic philology (
qualification at professorship level) from the
University of Münster
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With more than 43,000 students and over ...
in 2002.
Academic appointments
Kordić taught and conducted
research
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at a number of Croatian and German universities. From 1990 to 1991 she was an assistant at the
Osijek University, and from 1991 to 1995 she was an assistant at the
Zagreb University
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. Then she moved to Germany and was a lecturer at the
Bochum University
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from 1993 to 1998.
[ She later served as an associate professor at the ]Münster University
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from 1998 to 2004. After that, she was a visiting professor
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at the Humboldt University of Berlin
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from 2004 to 2005. From 2005 to 2007 she was a lecturer at the Frankfurt University
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.
Works and reception
Snježana Kordić's main focal points in research and teaching are grammar
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, syntax
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, text linguistics
Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems. Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars. The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in ...
, textual cohesion, pragmatics
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, lexicology, corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is the study of language, study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus (plural ''corpora''), its body of "real world" text. Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feas ...
, quantitative linguistics
Quantitative linguistics (QL) is a sub-discipline of general linguistics and, more specifically, of mathematical linguistics. Quantitative linguistics deals with language learning, language change, and application as well as structure of natural la ...
, sociolinguistics
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and language policy. She has authored over 150 linguistic publication
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s, among which are a textbook
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, a grammar book, and three monograph
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s, which have been translated
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into English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
, German
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* Germany (of or related to)
** Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ge ...
or Spanish
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* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
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. Each of her books on syntactic issues has gotten more positive reviews
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from around the world than any other linguistic book published
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in Croatia.
Monograph on relative clauses in Serbo-Croatian (1995)
Her first monograph on relative clauses
A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phraseRodney D. Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, ''A Student's Introduction to English Grammar'', CUP 2005, p. 183ff. and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments ...
was well received. Many reviewers commented favourably on it. Ian Press wrote:
Hans-Peter Stoffel underlined:
Monograph on Serbo-Croatian words on the border between lexicon and grammar (2002)
In her second monograph, which has also been reviewed with approval, Snježana Kordić examines Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...
words that oscillate between having a full lexical status and a functional
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grammatical status, a factor that has complicated their lexicographic
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* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
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and grammatical
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description in dictionaries
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and grammars. These are mainly lexemes
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which have a high frequency
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usage and are used in many different ways. The monograph provides information on the syntax
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, semantics
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and pragmatics
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of the usage of selected pronouns
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, nouns
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, particle
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, conjunctions and verbs
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Peter Herrity emphasised that:
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Wayles Browne, an American expert on relative clauses, commented both of the books. He noted that Kordić's first book on relative clauses is: In the same review article, Browne pointed out that Kordić's second monograph
Monograph on language and nationalism in Croatia (2010)
Snježana Kordić's third monograph deals with sociolinguistic
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topics, such as language policy in Croatia
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, theory of pluricentric language
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s, and how identity, culture, nation, and history can be misused by politically motivated linguists. Kordić ascertains that since 1990, purism
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and prescriptivism have been the main features of language policy in Croatia.[; ] A ban on certain words perceived as "Serbian" (which were for the most part merely international) and the idea that a word is more "Croatian" if fewer Croats understood it, resulted in the widespread impression that no one but a handful of linguists in Croatia knew the standard language
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.
With a plethora of quotations from German, French, Polish and English linguistic literature, Kordić demonstrates that the language of Croats
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, Serbs
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, Bosniaks
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and Montenegrins
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is a polycentric language
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, with four standard variants spoken in Croatia
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, Serbia
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, Montenegro
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and Bosnia and Herzegovina
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These variants do differ slightly, as is the case with other polycentric languages (English
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, German
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, French, Portuguese
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, and Spanish, among others), but not to a degree which would justify considering them as different languages. This fact suggests by no means a re-establishment of a common state, since standard variants of all other polycentric languages are spoken in different countries, e.g. English in the US, UK, Australia
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, and Canada
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, German in Austria
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, Germany, and Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. The above examples demonstrate that the pluricentricity of language does not imply linguistic unification. Each nation can codify its variant on its own.
Kordić criticizes a romantic view of language and nation, which is very widespread in Croatia. The romantic idea that the nation and the language must match has its roots in 19th century Germany, but by the middle of the 20th century, the scientific community abandoned that idea. She also argues against political interference in linguistics.
As regards the name of the language, Kordić discusses only the name to be used in linguistics, leaving non-linguists to name the language any way they prefer.
The monograph generated significant media coverage
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[ pg. 2.] Kordić gave over sixty interviews discussing her book. Some prominent Croatian intellectuals have praised the book. The book also received negative criticism, in both Croatia and Serbia, where Serbian weekly journals opined that the book is "far more dangerous for Serbian linguistics than for Croatian inguistics; it is "destructive for the Serbs" because it "makes the language free from the Serbian tradition, it reduces the language to a symbolic-neutral communication tool, it encourages the indifference towards naming of the language and towards the number of different names given to the Serbian language". In Croatia, a group, Hitrec, tried to file a lawsuit against the then active minister of culture arguing that the state should not sponsor that book. However, the State's Attorney of Zagreb declined to prosecute. The attempt itself to file the lawsuit was criticised as a "witch hunt" in parts of the Croatian media. In 2017, Kordić's book became the inspiration for the Declaration on the Common Language
The Declaration on the Common Language ( sh, Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku / ) was issued in 2017 by a group of intellectuals and NGOs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia who were working under the banner of a projec ...
that also attracted media attention.
In his review of the monograph on language and nationalism ('' Jezik i nacionalizam''), Zoran Milutinović commented:
Reviewer Goran Miljan wrote:
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* Ausbausprache
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* Cooperative principle
* Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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* Deixis
* Demonstrative pronoun
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* Descriptive linguistics
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All acad ...
* Differences between Serbo-Croatian standard varieties
Standard Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian are different national variants and official registers of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language.
History
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* Dual
* Existential clause
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* Folk linguistics
Folk linguistics consists of statements, beliefs, or practices concerning language which are based on uninformed speculation rather than the scientific method. Folk linguistics sometimes arises when scientific conclusions about language come off as ...
* Function word
* Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a grammatical category of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more"). English and other languages present number categories of ...
* Implicature
In pragmatics, a subdiscipline of linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed. Implicatures can aid in communicating more efficiently than by explicitly sayi ...
* Language policy
* Language secessionism in Serbo-Croatian
* Linguistic prescription
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* Mutual intelligibility
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* Personal pronoun
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* Philosophy of language
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* Pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language
* Possessive
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* Pro-drop language
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* Quantitative linguistics
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* Relative pronoun
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An example is the word ''which'' in the sentence "This is the house which Jack built." Here the ...
* Relativizer In linguistics, a relativizer (abbreviated ) is a type of conjunction that introduces a relative clause. For example, in English, the conjunction ''that'' may be considered a relativizer in a sentence such as "I have one that you can use."Fox, Bar ...
* Restrictive clause
Relative clauses in the English language are formed principally by means of relative pronouns. The basic relative pronouns are ''who'', ''which'', and ''that''; ''who'' also has the derived forms ''whom'' and ''whose''. Various grammatical rules an ...
* Serbo-Croatian grammar
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* Serbo-Croatian language
Serbo-Croatian () – also called Serbo-Croat (), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and ...
* Serbo-Croatian phonology
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* Serbo-Croatian reflexive pronoun
* Serbo-Croatian relative clauses
* Sociolinguistics
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* South Slavic languages
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* T–V distinction
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* Word order
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* Vladimir Anić
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* Stjepan Babić
* Dalibor Brozović
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* Ranko Bugarski
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* Paul Grice
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* Bernhard Gröschel
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* Senahid Halilović
* Janko Polić Kamov
* Radoslav Katičić
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* Heinz Kloss
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* August Kovačec
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* Predrag Matvejević
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* Svein Mønnesland
* Ivo Pranjković
* Matija Antun Reljković
* Michael Schmidt-Salomon
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* Dubravko Škiljan
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* Mario Vargas Llosa
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a. The Durieux-Editor Nenad Popović was honored by the German newspaper ''Süddeutsche Zeitung
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'' as one of the six persons that rendered outstanding services to peace in the world in 2010. The newspaper wrote that Nenad Popović published Snježana Kordić's book ''Jezik i nacionalizam'' in 2010. The original text is as follows: "In diesem Jahr machte Popovićs Verlag mit einem Buch der Autorin Snježana Kordić auf dem ganzen Balkan Furore. In ihrem Werk ‘Die Sprache und der Nationalismus’ kommt die in Zagreb und Münster ausgebildete Sprachwissenschaftlerin zum Schluss, dass die südslawischen Völker – Serben, Kroaten, Bosnier und Montenegriner – eine gemeinsame Standardsprache haben. Die Studie war ein Schlag ins Gesicht der Nationalisten, die nach der staatlichen Unabhängigkeit nun versuchen, das Serbokroatische, die Lingua franca der Region, zu begraben und eigene Sprachen zu erfinden."
b. In Croatia, ''Jezik i nacionalizam'' was among the five titles nominated for book of the decade in the field of peacebuilding, nonviolence and human rights.
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