Pseudoznanost na djelu (Pseudoscience at Work)

Abstract

Serbo-Croatian Abstract: Povodom knjige "Hrvatski kao povijesni jezik" pokazuje se da Marko Samardžija koristi pojam "povijesni jezik" prešućujući podatke iz radova utemeljitelja tog pojma, Eugena Coseriua, na osnovi kojih bi se vidjelo da je Coseriuov pojam primjenjiv na policentrične jezike i da sam Coseriu eksplicitno spominje srpskohrvatski jezik. Pokazuje se, nadalje, da Samardžija pogrešno upotrebljava pojam "jezične zajednice" kad govori o dalekoj prošlosti, te da bitno okrnjuje podatke kad opisuje uvođenje štokavskoga za standardni jezik, i tako navodi čitatelje na pogrešne zaključke. Također se pokazuje da svi podaci o vremenu prve Jugoslavije koje Samardžija nudi u knjizi stoje u kontradikciji s njegovom tvrdnjom da je u to vrijeme vladao jezični unitarizam.

English Abstract: This critical analysis of the book "Croatian as a Historical Language" by Marko Samardžija shows that Samardžija uses the term "historical language" by hiding data from the works of the founder of the term, Eugen Coseriu, on the basis of which it would be seen that Coseriu's term is applicable to polycentric languages and that Coseriu himself explicitly mentions the Serbo-Croatian language. Furthermore, Samardžija is shown to be misusing the term "linguistic community" when referring to the distant past, and to substantially truncate information when describing the introduction of Štokavian as a standard language, thus leading readers to erroneous conclusions. It is also shown that all the information about the first Yugoslavia that Samardžija offers in the book contradicts his claim that linguistic unitarism prevailed at that time.

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Keywords: Standard language, language varieties, history of language, mutual intelligibility, linguistic community, nation-forming, unitarism, purism, Štokavian, Kajkavian, Čakavian, Illyrian, functional styles, polycentric language, German, English, Spanish, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, Marko Samardžija