Open AccessLinguistic geography in Serbia - linguistic notes on maps and their reading
Author(s) -
R Sofija Miloradović
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1704113m
Subject(s) - dialectology , linguistics , atlas (anatomy) , slavic languages , language geography , witness , catalan , toponymy , geography , history , serbian , historical geography , human geography , philosophy , economic geography , paleontology , biology
The creation of linguistic atlases is the highest achievement of linguogeography. A scientific linguistic map with all the necessary accompanying elements offers the possibility to trace the geographic distribution of an actual linguistic phenomenon. The text starts by pointing out the importance of linguistic atlases as the ?central instrument? of contemporary dialectology. Subsequently, it presents the work of the Interacademic Committee for Dialectological Atlases (SASA), founded in 1959 as the Yugoslav Committee for Dialectological Atlases, spanning several decades and constituting the framework for the local activities of three international projects (Atlas of the European Languages - ALE, The General Slavic Linguistic Atlas - OLA, and The General Carpathian Dialectological Atlas - OKDA) and the national project named The Serbian Dialectological Atlas - SDA (earlier The Serbo-Croatian Dialectological Atlas). Further, the paper presents the existence of numerous linguistic maps in national publications, published within dialectological scientific papers and monographic studies and bearing witness to the work performed in the background of our major tasks in the linguogeographic field. The paper also indicates the importance of linguistic maps for various scientific disciplines and areas.