Summary
Ranko Bugarski: Travelogue according to memory
Dr. Ranko Bugarski, full professor at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade, has published a large number of works in English, general and applied linguistics, and sociolinguistics. In this edition, his books Linguistics about Man (1975, 1983), Language in Society (1986), Language from Peace to War (1995), Faces of Language – Sociolinguistic Themes (2001, 2002), New Faces of Language – Sociolinguistic Themes (2002, 2009), Jargon – Linguistic Studies (2003, 2006), Language and Culture (2005), Europe in Language were published. (2009), Language and Identity (2010), Portrait of a Language (2012) and Sarmageddon in Mesopotamia – lexical hide and seek (2013). He taught at many foreign universities. He was vice-president of the International Association for Applied Linguistics (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée) and president of the European Linguistic Society (Societas Linguistica Europaea). He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg) and an expert of the Council of Europe for regional and minority languages (Strasbourg). Two international and one student anthology were printed in his honor: History and Perspectives of Language Study – Papers in Honor of Ranko Bugarski, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000; Language, society, knowledge - to Professor Ranko Bugarski from his students, Belgrade: Faculty of Philology, 2003; Language in Use, Novi Sad: Society for Applied Linguistics of Serbia, 2011.
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