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The paper deals with status of Croatian language in official gazettes in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1990 to 2005. Croatian language is one of three official languages in Bosnia and Herzegovina, therefore it is necessary to explore its real position in the society, especially regarding its status. Since those texts are a part of public communication – and usage of standard language in that area is obligatory – attention is focused on one of the most represented public communication style, and that is administrative functional style. For exploring the position of Croatian language in the mentioned period regarding that style, the texts of the following official gazettes were analyzed: Službeni list BiH, Narodni list HZ/RHB and Gradski službeni glasnik Grada Mostara (Službeni list grada Mostara). Collected data were firstly analyzed at the lexical level since the status of language in public communication can be best determined at that linguistic level.

The paper analyzes language of texts in Kalendar Dobri Pastir and Kršni zavičaj, publications of the Catholic Church, in the period from 1950 to 2005. The aim of the research is to define position of Croatian language in BiH in one segment of public communication. Although constitutionally and legally Croatian has been one of official languages in the former state and in post-Dayton BiH, it is gradually displaced from the public use. That is why Catholic Church publications, published in that period, have a special role in preserving Croatian language at the level of both private and public communication.

Phraseology as a linguistic discipline does not have long tradition, but that does not alleviate its importance either within one language or in contrasting two languages. Translation of phraseological terms in literary works is an interesting and topical part of contrastive linguistics. While translating it is not always possible to find the adequate equivalent in the target language, therefore it is better to use descriptive translation in those cases in order not to loose splendor and expressivity of a certain image. This paper deals with contrastive analysis of phraseological terms in Andrić’s short stories and their translations in German. In analysis special attention is paid to structural characteristics of phrasemes and their mutual full, partial or zero equivalence.

The article deals with sociolinguistic topic – status of Croatian language in public communication in BiH from 1945 to 1967. Experience has shown that historicity of Croatian language in Bosnia and Herzegovina was more or less denied or at least obfuscated, therefore the Croatian language was denied in language politics of that country. Despite that historicity of Croatian in BiH was preserved by different non-linguistic (pointing out many historical, ethnic, cultural and other particularities) and of course linguistic means. Since the paper deals with position of Croatian language in public communication in Bosnia and Herzegovina and since the standard language is realized through its functional styles, attention is directed to one of the most represented styles in the area of communication – administrative functional style. Texts from the official organs Official Journal NR BiH or Official Journal SR BiH and Official Gazette of Mostar Municipality were analyzed for the needs of research on position of Croatian language in the mentioned period and on that style plan. Collected materials were analyzed at the lexical, phonological, morphological and syntactical level.