Ranko Bugarski

ISBN 0-89357-232-2) and Language in the Former Yugoslav Lands (Bloomington, IN: Slavica, 2004. Pp. 325. ISBN 0-89357-298-5). He has edited scholarly journals and, as translator and editor, introduced to the Yugoslav public the works of some leading linguists (Chomsky, Sapir, Whorf) and modern linguistic disciplines (transformational-generative grammar, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics). At the same time, he has kept international audiences informed about the changing language situation in Yugoslavia and its successor states, with a special focus on the official dissolution of Serbo-Croatian. In 2017, he has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. ^{[6] [7] [8]}

Notable positions

Co-founder and first president, Yugoslav Association of Applied Linguistics; Vice President, Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA); ^[9] President, Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE); corresponding member, Research Centre on Multilingualism (Brussels); national correspondent, Soziolinguistische Bibliographie Europäischer Länder, in the yearbook Sociolinguistica (Tübingen/Berlin); Council of Europe Expert on Regional or Minority Languages (Strasbourg); advisory board member, the journals Multilingua (Berlin/New York) and Historiographia Linguistica, with the associated book series Studies in the History of Linguistics (Amsterdam/Philadelphia); Yugoslav Board member, European Society for the Study of English (ESSE).

Other honours

Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea (Salzburg); ^[9] Honorary President, English-Speaking Union of Serbia; Honorary President, Applied Linguistics Association of Serbia; Honorary member, Association of Serbian Anglicists. He has been honoured with three festschrifts: (1) History and Perspectives of Language Study: Papers in Honor of Ranko Bugarski ^[10] (eds O.Mišeska Tomić, M.Radovanović), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000. Pp. 305. ISBN   90-272-3692-5; (2) Jezik, društvo, saznanje - Profesoru Ranku Bugarskom od njegovih studenata [Language, Society, Cognition: For Professor Ranko Bugarski from his Students] (eds D.Klikovac, K.Rasulić), Beograd: Filološki fakultet, 2003. Pp. 300. ISBN   86-80267-67-8; (3) Jezik u upotrebi - primenjena lingvistika u čast Ranku Bugarskom/Language in Use: Applied Linguistics in Honour of Ranko Bugarski (ed. V.Vasić), Novi Sad/Beograd: Društvo za primenjenu lingvistiku Srbije, etc., 2011. Pp. 382. ISBN   978-86-6065-068-1 (bilingual Serbian/Croatian and English volume). His books Jezik i lingvistika (1972) and Jezik u društvu (1986) have won annual prizes, and in 2011 he was awarded the title "Vitez poziva" [Knight of his calling] by the NGO League of Experts-LEX.

Publications

Books

Most of the first twelve originally published by different publishing houses, thereafter all brought together in the edition of Ranko Bugarski's Selected Works (Belgrade: Čigoja štampa/XX vek, 1996–1997):

• Predlozi over, under, above, below i beneath u savremenom engleskom jeziku [The prepositions over, under, above, below and beneath in contemporary English] (1969, 2nd ed. 1996). Pp. vi+331. ID=47287308. /Ph.D. dissertation, with an English summary/.
• Jezik i lingvistika [Language and linguistics] (1972, 4th ed. 2003). Pp. 301. ID=49205772.
• Lingvistika o čoveku [Linguistics on man] (1975, 3rd ed. 1996). Pp. 218. ID=48322828.
• Jezik u društvu [Language in society] (1986, 3rd ed. 2004). Pp. 261. ID=49207052.
• Lingvistika u primeni [Linguistics in application] (1986, 3rd ed. 2007). Pp. 216. ID=48473612.
• Uvod u opštu lingvistiku [Introduction to general linguistics] (1989, 8th ed. 2013). Pp. 269. ID=48323084.
• Ka jedinstvu lingvistike [Towards unity in linguistics] (1997). Pp. 284. ID=56979468.
• Jezik u kontekstu [Language in context] (1997). Pp. 298. ID=57560588.
• Jezici [Languages] (1993, 6th ed. 2010). Pp. 144. ISBN   978-86-7558-757-6. /Macedonian translation, Skopje, 2001/.
• Pismo [Writing] (1996, 3rd ed. 2010). Pp. 190. ISBN   978-86-7558-641-8. /Macedonian translation, Skopje, 2001/.
• Jezik od mira do rata [Language from peace to war] (1994, 3rd ed. 1997). Pp. 142. ID=52929292. /Greek translation, Athens, 2011/.
• Jezik u društvenoj krizi [Language in a social crisis] (1997). Pp. 168. ID=57789708.

This set was followed by nine further books, all except the last on the list published by Biblioteka XX vek of Belgrade:

• Lica jezika – sociolingvističke teme [Facets of language: Sociolinguistic topics] (2001, 2nd ed. 2002). Pp. 246. ISBN   86-81493-80-9.
• Nova lica jezika – sociolingvističke teme ^[10] [New facets of language: Sociolinguistic topics] (2002, 2nd ed. 2009). Pp. 262. ISBN   978-86-7562-014-3.
• Žargon – lingvistička studija [Slang: A linguistic study] (2003, 2nd ed. 2006). Pp. 295. ISBN   86-7562-056-X.
• Jezik i kultura [Language and culture] (2005). Pp. 288. ISBN   86-7562-040-3.
• Evropa u jeziku [Europe in language] (2009). Pp. 246. ISBN   978-86-7562-085-3.
• Jezik i identitet [Language and identity] (2010). Pp. 279. ISBN   978-86-7562-093-8.
• Portret jednog jezika [Portrait of a language] (2012). Pp. 278. ISBN   978-86-7562-103-4.
• Sarmagedon u Mesopotamaniji – leksičke skrivalice [Sarmageddon in Mesopotamania: Lexical blends] (2013). Pp. 207. ISBN   978-86-7562-110-2.
• Selektivna sociolingvistička bibliografija: SFRJ/SRJ-SCG/Srbija, 1967–2007 [Selective sociolinguistic bibliography of Yugoslavia/Serbia, 1967–2007] (2009). Beograd: Narodna biblioteka Srbije. Pp. 124. ISBN   978-86-7035-203-2.

Selected articles and book chapters

• On the interrelatedness of grammar and lexis in the structure of English. Lingua 19:3, 1968, 233–263.
• Symmetry and asymmetry in prepositional systems. Zbornik radova povodom četrdesetogodišnjice osnivanja Katedre za engleski jezik i književnost. Beograd: Filološki fakultet, 1969, 57–69.
• Writing systems and phonological insights. Papers from the Sixth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. University of Chicago: Department of Linguistics, 1970, 453–458.
• A system of English prepositions and their Serbo-Croatian equivalents. The Yugoslav Serbo-Croatian-English Contrastive Project (ed. R.Filipović), Zagreb: Institute of Linguistics/Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics. Reports 8, 1973, 3–20.
• The object of linguistics in historical perspective. In: History of Linguistic Thought and Contemporary Linguistics (ed. H.Parret), Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1976, 1–12.
• The interdisciplinary relevance of folk linguistics. In: Progress in Linguistic Historiography (ed. K.Koerner), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1980, 381–393.
• Some thoughts on the structure and applications of linguistics. In: Models of Grammar, Descriptive Linguistics and Pedagogical Grammar (eds G.Nickel, D.Nehls), Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1980, 22–45.
• Sociolinguistic issues in standardizing linguistic terminology. Language in Society 12:1, 1983, 65–70.
• Sociolinguistics and language universals. Studia Linguistica 37:1, 1983, 1–8.
• Language universals and linguistic relativity. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 19:2, 1985, 45–55.
• (with Melanie Mikes) Types and methods in multilingual research in Yugoslavia. In: Methoden der Kontaktlinguistik/Methods in Contact Linguistic Research (ed. P.H.Nelde), Bonn:Dümmler, 1985, 145–154.
• Translation across cultures: Some problems with terminologies. In: Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of Language. Festschrift for Robert Lado (ed. K.R.Jankowsky), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1985, 159–163.
• Politique et aménagement linguistiques en Yougoslavie. In: Politique et Aménagement Linguistiques (ed. J.Maurais), Québec: Conseil de la Langue Française/Paris: Le Robert, 1987, 417–452.
• Language planning in Yugoslavia. In: Actes du Colloque International sur l'Aménagement Linguistique/Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Language Planning (ed. L.Laforge), Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1987, 133–141.
• Applied linguistics as linguistics applied. In: The Relation of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (eds O. Mišeska Tomić, R.W.Shuy), New York/London: Plenum Press, 1987, 3–19.
• Multilingualism and markedness in language use: The Yugoslav case. Grazer Linguistische Studien 28, 1987, 5–11.
• Soziolinguistische Aspekte der heutigen serbokroatischen Standardsprache. Die Welt der Slaven 34:2, 1989, 259–273.
• Generative structuralism. In: Yugoslav General Linguistics (ed. M.Radovanović), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1989, 33–46.
• The social basis of language conflict and language attitudes. In: Language Attitudes and Language Conflict/Spracheinstellungen und Sprachkonflikte (ed. P.H.Nelde), Bonn:Dümmler, 1990, 41–47.
• Contrastive analysis of terminology and the terminology of contrastive analysis. In: Languages in Contact and Conflict (eds V.Ivir, D.Kalogjera), Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991, 73–92.
• Graphic relativity and linguistic constructs. In: Literacy and Language Analysis (ed. R.J.Scholes), Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993, 5–18.
• Language and languages: A retrospect. In: History of Linguistics 1993 (ed. K.R.Jankowsky), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1995, 321–326.
• A problem of language identity: The comparative linguistics of Serbo-Croatian. In: Dán do Oide: Essays in Memory of Conn R. Ó Cléirigh (eds A.Ahlqvist, V.Čapková), Dublin: The Linguistics Institute of Ireland, 1997, 67–73.
• Language-internal conflict and language dissolution. In: Recent Studies in Contact Linguistics (eds W.Wölck, A. de Houwer), Bonn:Dümmler, 1997, 29–35.
• Lengua, nacionalismo y la désintegración de Yugoslavia. Revista de Antropología Social 6, 1997, 13–27.
• Discourses of war and peace. Folia Linguistica 34:3–4, 2000, 129–145.
• Language, nationalism and war in Yugoslavia. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 151, 2001, 69–87.
• Serbo-Croatian and its descendants: A case of Umbau? In: Lexical Norm and National Language – Lexicography and Language Policy in South-Slavic Languages after 1989 (ed. R.Lučić), München: Otto Sagner, 2002, 145–149.
• Sprachenpolitik in den Nachfolgestaaten des ehemaligen Jugoslawien. In: Sprache und politischer Wandel (eds H.Gruber, F.Menz, O.Panagl), Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2003, 51–70.
• Serbo-Croatian and English: Some sociolinguistic parallels. In: Germano-Slavistische Beiträge. Festschrift für Peter Rehder zum 65. Geburtstag (eds M.Okuka, U.Schweier), München: Otto Sagner, 2004, 45–52.
• Language and boundaries in the Yugoslav context. In: Language, Discourse and Borders in the Yugoslav Successor States (eds B.Busch, H.Kelly-Holmes), Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2004, 21–37.
• One, two, three, four: It's Serbo-Croatian that counts. In: A Companion in Linguistics: A Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday (eds B.Smelik et al.), Nijmegen: Stichting Uitgeverij de Keltische Draak/Münster: Nodus, 2005, 310–323.
• What English means to us. In: Interkatedarska konferencija anglističkih katedri Niš 2006 (ed. V.Ž.Jovanović), Niš: Filozofski fakultet, 2007, 11–19.
• European language policy between diversity and globalisation. In: Jezična politika i jezična stvarnost/Language policy and language reality (ed. J.Granić), Zagreb: Hrvatsko društvo za primijenjenu lingvistiku, 2009, 629–640.
• Half a century of linguistics: Some reflections and reminiscences. BAS/British and American Studies 14, 2009, 203–212.
• English in European institutions: Some observations. Belgrade English Language & Literature Studies 1, 2009, 109–117.
• Multiple language identities in Southeastern Europe (with a focus on Serbo-Croatian). In: Europe-Evropa: Cross-cultural Dialogues between the West, Russia, and Southeastern Europe (eds M.Könönen, J.Nuorluoto), Uppsala: Studia Multiethnica Upsaliensia 18, 2010, 34–49.
• Who are you? Profiling individual identities. In: English Language and Literature Studies: Image, Identity, Reality (eds N.Tomović, J.Vujić), Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, vol. I, 2011, 11–17.
• Language, identity and borders in the former Serbo-Croatian area. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33:3, 2012, 219–235.
• What happened to Serbo-Croatian? In: After Yugoslavia: The Cultural Spaces of a Vanished Land (ed. R.Gorup), Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013, 160–168.

See also

• List of members of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Serbo-Croatian language
• Societas Linguistica Europaea

References

1. "Prof. Ranko Bugarski, PhD, A Memorial Tribute". ni.ac.rs. pp. 7–9.
2. "Ranko Bugarski". sase.org.rs. Serbian Association for the Study of English.
3. "Preminuo Ranko Bugarski". Espreso. 13 August 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
4. Krajišnik, Đorđe (9 July 2015). "Jezik je jedna velika i neodoljiva misterija: intervju s Rankom Bugarskim" [Language is a huge and irresistible mystery: Interview with Ranko Bugarski]. Oslobođenje (in Serbo-Croatian). Archived from the original on 12 July 2015. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
5. Lasić, Igor (10 June 2013). "Jezici ne nastaju niti nestaju političkim dekretom: intervju s Rankom Bugarskim" [Languages do not arise or disappear by a political decree: Interview with Ranko Bugarski]. Novosti (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
6. Bugarski, Ranko (5 April 2017). "Dobronameran apel javnosti (intervju vodila Sonja Ćirić)" [Well-Intentioned Appeal to the Public (interview conducted by Sonja Ćirić)]. Vreme (in Serbo-Croatian). Belgrad. ISSN   0353-8028. Archived from the original on 26 August 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
7. Bugarski, Ranko (13 April 2017). "Deklaracija nije politička platforma (intervju vodila Mirjana Mitrović)" [Declaration is not a Political Platform (interview conducted by Mirjana Mitrović)]. Ekspres (in Serbo-Croatian). Belgrad. Archived from the original on 12 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
8. Bugarski, Ranko (7 May 2017). "Mali katalog promašaja" [A Small Catalog of Flaws]. Danas (in Serbo-Croatian). Belgrad. ISSN   1450-538X. Archived from the original on 14 May 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2018.
9. Ćirić, Sonja (25 December 2003). "Jezik, žargon i verbalne magle: intervju s Rankom Bugarskim" [Language, jargon and verbal fogs: Interview with Ranko Bugarski]. Vreme (in Serbo-Croatian). Belgrade. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
10. Kordić, Snježana (2003). "Jezik i nacionalizam: recenzija knjige Ranka Bugarskog, Nova lica jezika" [Language and nationalism: Review of Ranko Bugarski's New facets of language](PDF). Književna republika (in Serbo-Croatian). 1 (9–10). Zagreb: 224–228. ISSN   1334-1057 . Retrieved 2 October 2014.

Further reading

• The three festschrifts all contain information on the life and work of Ranko Bugarski. The best single source, however, is the booklet accompanying his Selected Works, with a detailed biographical sketch and a full bibliography of over 500 items in the current 8th edition: Bibliografija uz Sabrana dela (osmo, dopunjeno izdanje), Beograd: Čigoja štampa/XX vek, 2013, pp. 63.

External links

• Biography and bibliography of Ranko Bugarski (in Serbo-Croatian)
• Works by or about Ranko Bugarski at the Internet Archive
• Works by Ranko Bugarski at Open Library
• Ranko Bugarski at Library of Congress
• Literature by and about Ranko Bugarski in the German National Library catalogue
• 2012 Video with Ranko Bugarski on YouTube (in Serbo-Croatian)

Ranko Bugarski
Ранко Бугарски
Bugarski in 2014
Born	(1933-01-01)1 January 1933 Sarajevo, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Died	13 August 2024(2024-08-13) (aged 91)
Relatives	Vesna Bugarski (sister)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Sarajevo University of Belgrade (PhD)

v t e Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language
Linguists	Anders Ahlqvist Ronelle Alexander Nadira Aljović Bojan Anđelković Boban Arsenijević John Frederick Bailyn Josip Baotić Ranka Bijeljac-Babić Ranko Bugarski Costas Canakis Vesna Bulatović Daniel Bunčić Noam Chomsky Dragana Cvetanović Luna Filipović Ádám Galac Greville Corbett Oliver Czulo Natalia Długosz Ljiljana Dolamic Nicholas Evans Rajka Glušica Radmila Gorup Senahid Halilović Camiel Hamans Dejan Ivković Jagoda Jurić-Kappel Dunja Jutronić Mirjana Jocić Dejan Karavesović Jana Kenda Ivan Klajn Snježana Kordić Svetlana Kurteš Igor Kusin Zineta Lagumdžija Igor Lakić Gordana Lalić-Krstin Mia Mader Skender Alisa Mahmutović Olga Mišeska Tomić Vladimir Miličić Spiros Moschonas Joachim Mugdan Zoran Nikolovski Miloš Okuka Tatjana Paunović Dušan-Vladislav Pažđerski Mira Peter Tanja Petrović Enisa Pliska Milena Podolšak Luka Raičković Katarina Rasulić Marija Runić Svenka Savić Marko Simonović Ljiljana Subotić Danko Šipka Dušanka Točanac Neda Todorović Aleksandar Trklja Peter Trudgill Mladen Uhlik Hanka Vajzović Vera Vasić Elvira Veselinović Đorđe Vidanović Ana Ždrale Jelena Živojinović
Writers and Comparative literary historians	Sava Anđelović Vladimir Arsenijević Vladislav Bajac Ivica Baković Ljiljana Banjanin Svetislav Basara Tatjana Đurišić-Bečanović Nikola Bertolino Anna Bodrova Ivana Bodrožić Marica Bodrožić Tomislav Bogdan Balša Brković Đurđica Čilić Škeljo Bora Ćosić Filip David Marko Dejanović Daša Drndić Ferida Duraković Vladislava Gordić Petković Tatjana Gromača Sinan Gudžević Nihad Hasanović Jonel Hedjan Maja Herman Sekulić Oto Horvat Aleksandar Hut Kono Nedžad Ibrahimović Saša Ilić Ivan Ivanji Željko Ivanković Damir Karakaš Enver Kazaz Marija Kleut Goran Kljajić Maša Kolanović Dinko Kreho Višnja Krstić Asmir Kujović Pero Kvesić Slađan Lipovec Tomislav Longinović Neva Lukić Željko Milanović Mirjana Miočinović Marija Mitrović Elvedin Nezirović Aleksandar Novaković Teofil Pančić Jurica Pavičić Marko Pogačar Edo Popović Milan Rakovac Nenad Rizvanović Vedrana Rudan Ivana Sajko Olja Savičević Ivančević Hedina Sijerčić Roman Simić Mima Simić Biljana Srbljanović Srđan Srdić Jasna Šamić Faruk Šehić Slobodan Šnajder Ljiljana Šop Davor Špišić Igor Štiks Srđan V. Tešin Dejan Tiago Stanković Davor Špišić Dinko Telećan Ante Tomić Dubravka Ugrešić Radenko Vadanjel Nenad Veličković Dragan Velikić Bogusław Zieliński Zdravko Zima Alojzija Zupan Sosič Miodrag Zupanc
Journalists	Nikola Bajto Željko Bodrožić Marinko Čulić Velimir Ćurgus Boris Dežulović Zlatko Dizdarević Rade Dragojević Heni Erceg Toni Gabrić Štefica Galić Dinko Gruhonjić Viktor Ivančić Tomislav Jakić Duška Jurišić Mirko Klarin Vesela Laloš Gordana Logar Ante Lešaja Predrag Lucić Svetlana Lukić Vesna Mališić Domagoj Margetić Vladimir Matijanić Sergej Novosel Vučković Petar Panjkota Boris Pavelić Drago Pilsel Boris Postnikov Srećko Pulig Borka Rudić Dževad Sabljaković Nedim Sejdinović Vildana Selimbegović Grujica Spasović Hari Štajner Mira Šuvar Marko Tomaš Ladislav Tomičić Nela Vlašić Marijan Vogrinec Nikola Vučić
Lawyers, Sociologists and Political scientists	Dritan Abazović Esad Bajtal Antonija Čuvalo Nerzuk Ćurak Zdravko Grebo Božidar Jakšić Dejan Jović Danica Juričić Spasović Aleksej Kišjuhas Željko Komšić Zlatan Krajina Todor Kuljić Aneta Lalić Siniša Malešević Aleksandar Maršavelski Snježana Milivojević Jelica Minić Rastko Močnik Vukašin Pavlović Vuk Perišić Vesna Pešić Tanja Petovar Helena Popović Dušan Reljić Melita Richter Nikola Visković
Philosophers, Anthropologists and Cultural scientists	Nadežda Čačinovič Ivan Čolović Milena Dragićević Šešić Robert Hayden Darja Hoenigman Srećko Horvat Rada Iveković Hrvoje Jurić Dragoljub Mićunović Nina Mihaljinac Asim Mujkić Svetlana Slapšak Viktorija Šimon Vuletić Nebojša Zelić
Historians	Milica Bakić Hayden Florian Bieber Dejan Đokić Dževad Juzbašić Olga Manojlović Pintar Reinhard Markner Dragan Markovina Dubravka Stojanović Irina Subotić Ljubinka Trgovčević Hrvoje Volner Radina Vučetić
from other professions	archaeologist Anemari Bugarski Mesdjian psychologist Renko Đapić theater scholar Ljubica Anđelković Džambić theologian Drago Bojić engineer i vice president of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Milan Dunović architect Živojin Kara-Pešić mathematician Zoran Lučić electrical engineer Srbijanka Turajlić engineer Saša Zelenika
Actors, Film and Theatre directors	Izudin Bajrović Janko Baljak Snježana Banović Lana Barić Boris Barukčić Milena Bogavac Ermin Bravo Nikša Butijer Dejan Čavić Goran Dević Jasna Diklić Varja Đukić Stevan Filipović Igor Galo Rajko Grlić Nermin Hamzagić Zvonimir Jurić Mirjana Karanović Srđan Karanović Haid Kurić Goran Marković Damir Markovina Vili Matula Dino Mustafić Zlatko Paković Borka Pavićević Katarina Pejović Marija Perović Ines Pletikos Iso Porović Matija Radeljak Selma Spahić Feđa Stojanović Ognjen Sviličić Rade Šerbedžija Tatjana Šojić Radmila Tomović Dragana Varagić Željka Udovičić Peština Lenka Udovički Pjer Žalica Jasmila Žbanić
Artists	Tatjana Bezjak Nemanja Cvijanović Ella Dvornik Igor Grubić Igor Jurinić Tonći Kožul Denis Krašković Dejan Kršić Vahida Ramujkić Vladimir Veličković Aleksandar Zograf Isidora Žebeljan
Human rights and peace activists	Sandra Benčić Alen Budaj Edvin Kanka Ćudić Mirjana Mikić Zeitoun Nela Pamuković Sanja Sarnavka Vesna Teršelič Staša Zajović