IS IT TIME TO CHANGE THE RULES OF STANDARD BULGARIAN ACCORDING TO THE LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF BULGARIANS TODAY

VOL. 58, BOOK 1, PART А, 2020 Full text (Bg)

Author: Ruska Stancheva

Affiliation: Institute for Bulgarian Language – BAS

Abstract
The paper presents an analysis of the answers to a question in a representative sociological study of attitudes to possible changes in contemporary codified norms.The answers of respondents are analyzed in relation to three statistically significant variables: education, standard of living, ethnicity, as well as in relation to the variable age.The groups of respondents with a definite answer in direction of changing or maintaining the current literary rules are characterized by an active attitude towards the standard
language and its rules.The group with a neutral language attitude passively uses the standard and therefore feels alienated from the standard language and marginalized.

Key words: language attitudes, standard language, codification