The Socio-Political Aspects of Normativity in the Slavic Languages

Abstract

The question of normativity of literary language and of changing its criteria is interpreted as a reflection of the way language reacted to the social and political events that had fundamentally changed the Slavic world, affecting even its value system. The tendency for a partial redefinition of the normative criteria of literary language originates in - among other things - changed public and non-public communicative needs, as they affect a partially altered understanding of the relationship between literary language and language usage.