Bosanski jezik

Textbooks for the Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian language and literature - review from teaching practice

Mirza Kahvedžić — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The paper presents the results of a survey conducted as part of a wider research (Kahvedžić 2022) on the structural models of teaching units in the textbooks of the Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian language and literature subject used in elementary schools in the Tuzla Canton. The corpus of that research and the conclusions drawn from it are part of a more extensive study (Kahvedžić 2022) that included more than 50 textbooks (with workbooks) in use over a period of about 20 years. The concrete analysis was carried out on three levels: grammar, literature and media culture/culture of expression. Here, it is pointed out exclusively to the part of that research in connection with the review from teaching practice, that is, to the feedback of the teachers themselves about the mentioned aspects of the textbooks that they use in their work. Considering the size of the corpus, we consider this research to be the initiator of a more extensive one, which, as an objective assumption, could expand the obtained results.

The Educational function in the teaching of Bosnian language and literature

Amira — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper discusses one of the three fundamental tasks of teaching as an educational process—namely, the educational (formative) task, which lies at the core of social inclusion and the engagement of individuals within the community. Achieving the educational aspect of teaching means preparing students for an engaged role in life, developing a critical perception of both themselves and the world around them, and fostering a range of personal qualities related to moral, work-related, intellectual, and other dimensions of human character. In this regard, the teaching of the Bosnian language and literature in primary and secondary schools encompasses nearly all aspects of human upbringing, as the curricula are based on language, which is the foundation of socialization and communication—both with the surrounding environment and with oneself. Therefore, this paper will address both linguistic and literary education, as Bosnian language instruction cannot be considered separately from the study of literature—primarily national literature, followed by literature from the broader South Slavic and European literary corpus. Furthermore, the importance of cultivating a reading culture contributes to the significance of the educational function within Bosnian language and literature teaching, which has proven to be profoundly formative in various ways.

About pain and bodies that matter

Alma — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The focus of the work is the question of the articulation of pain in the poetry collection Promotional video for my homeland (2010) by Adisa Bašić and Do smrti naredne (2016) by Senka Marić. Two poetic testimonies talk about dealing with cancer and mastectomy (Senka Marić Do smrti naredne, 2016) and caring for a mother suffering from cancer and dealing with her death (Adise Bašić Promotional spot for my homeland, 2010), posing the question of how to speak/live o/s pain. Although mental and physical pain is difficult to express in words, as stated by Scarry (1985), it is necessary not to allow pain to become a sign of silence and ineffability since ineffability has political consequences (Scarry) because those who suffer pain remain invisible and isolated in their "realm". The scattered internal and external manifestations of fragments of a life occupied by illness and pain reveal to us that society/culture does not see and does not want to see individual cases, especially those that remind us of death and disrupt the myth of social progress. Therefore, the literary imagination that speaks about the other, articulating pain and introducing the voices of those who suffer, includes and makes visible/shareable/public what society suppresses, taboos and ignores with its sophisticated procedures.

Gargašanje: Resistance and carnivalesqueness in the collection of poetry Gola psovačica BY Bisera Alikadić

Alma — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The paper analyzes the collection of poetry Gola psovačica (2022) by Bisera Alikadić. Bakhtin's concept of carnival and reading strategy in a feminist key will serve us as a starting theoretical framework in the analysis and interpretation of Bisera Alikadić's poetry. The naked cursing woman speaks without a mask, she plays Lacrdiac, aware of her position of otherness in culture, with irony and self-irony she deconstructs and unmasks not only the patriarchal social order and its hierarchy of power, but also her own position and place of speech. The voice of the other in culture, with carnival forms and language, masquerade and swearing as special speech genres, produces a carnival atmosphere, destroying and regenerating at the same time. Street-ridiculous folk culture and ambivalent laughter, mocking, subversive and restorative, in the collection of poetry Gola psovačica raises awareness of various social inequalities and opposes the patterns of patriarchal culture, its mysticism and dogma.

Nomina agentis et professionis in oikonyms of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Indira — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the article, the authors analyze the oikonyms of Bosnia and Herzegovina in which nomina agentis and nomina professionis were the motives in the naming process. The examples show how the names of occupations and professions perform the function of oikonyms. It is determined which trades and other activities were most often used in the formation of oikonyms; by which formation processes and to what exent did the foreign words participate in the process of oikonimisation. Following the examples of oikonyms in the meaning of nomina agentis et professionis, the authors tried to define the mode of naming and the ways in which the Bosnians and Herzegovinians have created for centuries and formed their own oikonymy, one of the essential characteristics of the language and their own uniqueness. In this regard, 84 oikonyms were confirmed for which the name of occupation and activity served as a motive in the process of oikonimisation. In this oikonym collection, 63 different oikonyms and 26 different occupations were confirmed, which served as motives in the formation of names.

Three decades since Isaković's text language reminder from the Bosnian Language: Application and perception of Bosnian normative solutions

Alen — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The paper presents the principles that were used in the process of creating the Bosnian language norm, after the return of this language to official streams, and the part that Alija Isaković had in that process, especially in connection with the text Basic characteristics of the Bosnian language with repercussions in the official Bosnian language norm in the first modern Bosnian language orthographic manual from 1996. The paper underlines Isaković's commitment to the search for normative solutions in the Bosnian language based on the principles of etymology, grammatical regularity, the Bosnian literary and linguistic tradition and its foundation in the folk idioms of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The consonant h in the speech of Bosniaks in Albania

Haris — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The paper provides a description of the use of the consonant h in a dialectologically unstudied area, which represents a sort of linguistic oasis of the Eastern Herzegovinian dialect, surrounded on all sides by an Albanian organic idiom. Specifically, in the speech of Bosniaks in Albania, who have been living in Albania for over a century and a half in the district of Durrës, in the villages of Borak and Kodža, this consonant shows exceptional vitality and preservation, which is a characteristic feature of the original speech area from which the Bosniaks originate. However, it is not an unknown fact, as pointed out in earlier dialectological works, that the consonant h is an unstable consonant in the speech of the Štokavian dialect, where it appears in a highly diverse manner or has weakened frication or even disappears entirely in some Štokavian dialects. Previous research clearly indicates its stability in the speech of Bosniaks. Furthermore, it is also known that in the speech of other ethnic groups residing in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian linguistic area, this sound is not stable.. In addition to this criterion of ethnic affiliation, its representation will be shown in relation to its position in the word. Furthermore, examples of stable use of the h consonant will be provided both in words of Slavic origin and in words that do not belong to Slavic languages, considering the position in the words in which they occur. Given the dialectal origin of the Bosniaks in Albania, we did not expect substitutions of this consonant with other sounds, which was confirmed, and the recorded examples of replacing the consonant h with the consonant k in this speech reflect the influence of the Albanian linguistic environment. In the speech of Bosniaks in Albania, there are no significant deviations regarding the loss of the h consonant in comparison to the dialectal area from which the Bosniaks in Albania originate. The secondary nature of the h consonant is also evident in the use of this consonant in the studied speech. Additionally, there are examples in the corpus of the studied speech where the group hv becomes f, which is also a feature not unknown in the speech area from which the Bosniaks in Albania originate.

Language-stylistic charasteristics of Mevlud by hafiz Seid Zenunovic

Admir — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this paper, we have interpreted the etymology of the lexeme mevlud, described it semantically, pointed out the polysemy of this lexeme in the Bosnian language; the name for special religious events, and the name for collections of devotional poems. We have also looked at the role of mevlud in Bosniak tradition, the reasons for organizing such programs, the development of mevlud as a special literary genre among Bosniaks, and illustrated mevlud poems in the Bosnian language and their authors, including hafiz Seid Zenunović from Koraj (1875–1932).

The essential part of the paper is an analysis of the linguistic and stylistic characteristics of Zenunović's mevlud, written in 1929 in Arabic script, published by the Islamic Shareholder Printing House in Sarajevo, and contrasting the content and language of this edition with some of its later editions prepared in Latin script.

Observing the Mevlud text of Hafiz Zenunović in the context of the time of its creation, we confirm that he had an exquisite feeling for his language, that he had a pronounced lyrical sensibility. Some deviations from the standard language are only partially the result of the influence of the colloquial speech of the area where the author lived, and are more for the purpose of the text's stylogenicity, i.e. its metrics.

Growing up in Molnar's novel The Paul Street Boys

Mevlida, Alma — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This paper explores the reading of a classic work of children's literature, Ferenc Molnár’s The Paul Street Boys (1906), focusing on the analysis and interpretation of the meanings embedded in its symbolic construction of childhood. The reading is informed by an effort to interrogate the positions and interpretative capacities of both child and adult readers, whose experiences and perspectives are layered within the text. Drawing on theoretical frameworks concerning the ambivalence of children's literature (as articulated by scholars such as Shavit and Nodelman), the study examines various forms of doubling within the novel’s system of narrative mediation. Particular attention is given to the narrative strategies, the portrayal of childhood, the characterization of the protagonist, and the spatial dynamics in which the narrative unfolds—elements that emerge as central to the analytical focus. The historical context of the novel’s publication in 1906—marked by social upheaval, shifting paradigms, and the looming shadow of the Great War further situates the narrative within a broader framework. Within this context, the novel's representation of childhood framed by themes of loss, sacrifice, and tragedy is analyzed in order to uncover its deeper implications.