Indicating ideology

Variation in Montenegrin orthography

Bibliographic Data

ID7900473
AuthorsKatharina Tyran (0000-0002-2730-8318, University of Vienna, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume88
Pages41-51
Publication date2023-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage & Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0271-5309 • E-ISSN: 1873-3395
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.langcom.2022.10.004
OpenAlexW4308842797
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

This contribution discusses variation in orthography on a standard language level as a semiotic practice of extra-lingual exclusion and intra-lingual stylistic differentiation in a South Slavic language, Montenegrin. I will address recent orthography reforms and their use following the emancipation of Serbo-Croatian. Orthographic variants, I argue, function as semiotic means of exclusion from the former common language concept and as an emphasized differentiation to other standard varieties emerging from Serbo-Croatian, and therefore hold sociocultural indexicality. Such variation needs to be examined in its ideological embedding. Consequently, I will discuss how competing orthography reforms and variants following from these are connected to ideological disputes in the post-Serbo-Croatian linguistic sphere and how the use of either one orthography or another is constructed as stylistic representations of ideological perspectives

Ideology · Indexicality · Linguistics · Orthography · Political science · Semiotics · Sociology · Variation (astronomy · Law · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

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