Белешке о југоисточним србијанским говорима и још понечему : Социолингвистичко и културолошко гледиште

Прилог представља осврт на југоисточне србијанске говоре, који већ дуже време и с различитих аспеката (лингвистичког, балканистичког, етнолошког) привлаче пажњу научне и шире јавности. У последње време у нас је све више интереса за социолингвистички и уопште културолошки приступ овој области и њеном становништву. Прилог у друштвеноповесном светлу трага за местом и улогом југоисточних говора у српској култури, укључујући и питање односа књижевног језика према овим говорима.

NOTES ON THE SOUTHEASTERN SPEECHES OF SERBIA AND OTHER TOPICS : Sociolinguistic and cultural approach

The speeches of Southeastern Serbia have long attracted the attention of experts in various areas – linguists, Balkan studies scholars, ethnologists, etc. They have recently become a subject of sociolinguistic and even wider, cultural studies, which sometimes contain critical reflections on the approach to these speeches in Serb culture (particularly because they are linguistically quite distant from the northwestern line of dialects, which has provided the foundation for the literary language). However, recent studies insufficiently highlight the socio-historical circumstances under which this part of Serbia and the Serbs developed, e.g. the distance from the areas where the liberation wars were initiated in the late 18th and the early 19th century and where the first political and cultural institutions of the Serbs were established. It is overlooked that the idea of Yugoslavdom – which sought the basis for unity in those Serb speeches that had the potential of binding with the population of Yugoslavia’s western areas, including the Croats and Slovenes – had an important role. On the other hand, some studies suggest a non-Serb character of the speeches of Southeastern Serbia, relying on their ‘peripherality’ and their distance from the literary language. This paper is motivated by a number of recent studies, and especially a book by T. Petrović (Srbija i njen jug / Serbia and its South, Belgrade 2015), which offers a distinct approach to these issues, in many ways peculiar in Serb language studies.