Writing Standard

Process of Macedonian Language Standardization

Bibliographic Data

ID9640875
AuthorsChristina E Kramer (corresponding author), Christina Kramer (0000-0002-7660-6290)
Year2008
Volume50
Issue1-2
Pages37-53
Publication date2008-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Slavonic Papers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-5006 • E-ISSN: 2375-2475
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00085006.2008.11092571
OpenAlexW2020798792
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited12

This paper focuses on questions of Macedonian standardization at the most micro-level, i.e., within the individual. Through examination of archival materials of Macedonian writers of the early twentieth century, questions of language shift and standardization are addressed. While much research has been conducted on the state processes of language standardizing, on access to the media in newly standardized linguistic codes, and on access to education, this work refocuses discussion of language standards on individual speakers and writers: how and why they shift their language to the emerging norm. Two writers from this period, Anton Kavaev and Radoslav Petkovski, serve as models and provide the first step in a larger study of processes of standardization in the early decades of the twentieth century leading to codification in mid-century. The written works of the authors under study demonstrate that language codification is not an act, nor a series of acts, but a process, a process that takes place within individual speakers who are committed to the project of language standardization while subject to external political and linguistic pressures

Linguistics · Macedonian · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Process (computing · Programming language · Standard language · Standardization · Balkan and Eastern European Studies · Computer Science · Law · Legal Language and Interpretation · Translation Studies and Practices

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