ADMINISTRATIVIZMI U STANDARDNOM BOSANSKOM JEZIKU / ADMINISTRATIVE EXPRESSIONS IN THE STANDARD BOSNIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Contemporary linguistic research has increasingly focused on the administrative functional style, its substyles, nature and peculiarities, shortcomings and flaws, as well as influences on other styles. Numerous works dealing with this topic from different aspects have been published. Here, we are referring primarily to works from Croatian and Serbian studies, and in order to point out the importance of dealing with this style in Bosnian studies as well and to encourage the develop ment of Bosnian research in this direction, we dedicate this work to an important characteristic of the administrative style – administrative expressions. Adminis trative expressions – lexemes, constructions and phrases – are typical features of the administrative style and are used in its genres. In order to determine adminis trative expressions in the Bosnian language and confirm their status, it is first nec essary to gain insight into the lexicographical manuals of the Bosnian language in order to understand the relationship of these normative manuals to the lexemes and expressions that are recognized as units characteristic of the administrative style of the Bosnian language, which is also the main goal of this work. Since Rječnik bosanskoga jezika [The Bosnian Language Dictionary] (Halilović – Palić – Šehović, 2010) also has a normative assessment of the included units, we deem appropriate to begin this type of analysis with the content of this dictionary, while the other Bosnain language dictionaries, namely, Rječnik bosanskog jezika (Čedić et al., 2007) and the multi-volume Rječnik bosanskog jezika (Jahić, 2010–2024) served for additional comparison and consultation.