GRANICE IMENOVANjA – IMENOVANjE GRANICA

Abstract

Over the centuries, and especially in recent decades, Serbian language and Serbian literature experience an unusual fate: the area covered by language and literature is increasingly reduced by tearing parts from its being and by giving them new names. Inventing the names of new languages, new nations, new cultures, new regions and new literatures represents a deep intrusion into the essence of both the individual and the collective identity of the human being. This text tries to point out the ways and procedures by which the (re)naming moved the boundaries of the area covered by the Serbian language, although the essence remained unchanged.