Languages and Cultures in Time and Space

The project focuses on different languages and cultures, with their specific systems and patterns as they come into contact with each other, analyzed from both synchronic and diachronic viewpoints. In today’s world, in which each and every nation, language and culture must find its own place, it has become necessary that one can speak more languages and understand more cultures.Thus, at the synchronic level, the analysis primarily focuses on the current state of the very topic of research, whereas the diachronic aspect traces its causes and stages. The linguistic research includes all levels of analysis:phonetic-phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic. The main topics of interest include multilingualism and bilingualism, one of the goals being that the lexicological and lexicographic sections result in the compilation of several multilingual terminological dictionaries, which would represent the project’s direct contribution to various other spheres of human activity. Our reception of other nations’ literary works, the reception our literature has received in other languages and cultures, as well as their interrelatedness, will also be observed at both levels. The end result of this project will be a linguistic and cultural mosaic within regional, European and even broader frames, with special reference to the place that the Serbian language and culture and the languages and cultures of ethnic minorities in Serbia occupy in the world of today.