Voß, ChristianThis paper explores the striking similarity in the hesitant implementation of the new Macedonian and Montenegrin standards, which has taken unusually long in both cases. As will be shown, a comparative look at the two standardisation processes reveals parallels of language politics in Macedonia after 1944 and Montenegro after 2006. In both cases the implementation of the new standard is hesitant, slow, and shows policy shifts. A key conclusion of this paper is that this normative vacuum is possible because Serbian, as the traditional H-variety, is omnipresent in both countries. This observation however implies an optimistic outlook for Montenegrin since Macedonian standardisation today can be assessed as a success story, despite continuous contestation from neighbouring countries. The paper focuses on both differences and commonalities of the standardisation process in these two Yugoslav successor states.This paper explores the striking similarity in the hesitant implementation of the new Macedonian and Montenegrin standards, which has taken unusually long in both cases. As will be shown, a comparative look at the two standardisation processes reveals parallels of language politics in Macedonia after 1944 and Montenegro after 2006. In both cases the implementation of the new standard is hesitant, slow, and shows policy shifts. A key conclusion of this paper is that this normative vacuum is possible because Serbian, as the traditional H-variety, is omnipresent in both countries. This observation however implies an optimistic outlook for Montenegrin since Macedonian standardisation today can be assessed as a success story, despite continuous contestation from neighbouring countries. The paper focuses on both differences and commonalities of the standardisation process in these two Yugoslav successor states.application/pdfhttps://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/awpel/article/view/20021engΕΕΠΓ / LESoLCopyright (c) 2019 Christian Voßhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics2585-2108Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics; Τόμ. 2 Αρ. 1 (2018): Ethnographic accounts of linguistic issues in the Yugoslav successor states; 1-16Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2018): Ethnographic accounts of linguistic issues in the Yugoslav successor states; 1-16Linguistic emancipation within the Serbian mental map: The implementation of the Montenegrin and Macedonian standard languagesLinguistic emancipation within the Serbian mental map: The implementation of the Montenegrin and Macedonian standard languagesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion2019-03-21Δημοσίευση σε περιοδικόPublication in journalΓλώσσα και ΓλωσσολογίαLanguage and Linguisticsisi - Language & Linguistics covers resources relating to theoretical, literary and historical linguistics as well as stylistics and philology.isi - Linguistics covers resources relating to all theoretical and applied aspects of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The category also includes resources dealing with language as a social phenomenon such as sociolinguistics, language acquisition and education, psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics, semiotics and the relationship between memory and language.Επιστημονικό άρθροScientific articleΕργαστήριο Εθνογραφικών Προσεγγίσεων της Γλώσσας (ΕΕΠΓ)Greek Aggregator OpenArchives.gr | National Documentation Centre (EKT)