Primjedbe o zastarjelosti i poznavanju baštinjenih hrvatskih poslovica - II. "Hrvatske narodne poslovice" Jurja Vicka Skarpe (1909)
Anmerkungen zu Obsoletheit und Bekanntheit traditioneller krostischer Sprichwörter II: Die "Hrvatske narodne poslovice" von Juraj Vicko Skarpa (1909)

Summary/Abstract: The present article represents the results of an empirical investigation of familiarity with traditional Croatian proverbs. The study is based on the assumption that neither linguistic nor psycholinguistic studies will arrive at representative results unless the very material basis, which serves for any subsequent study, is empirically provided. Therefore the focus of research is shifted from questions such as how particular supra-lexical items are linguistically constructed, or how they are mentally stored or processed, to the primary question of which items are available (i. e., generally known). All 15,027 proverbs from V. J. Skarpa's "Hrvatske narodne poslovice" (1909) were distributed among eleven native speakers from various Croatian regions. As a result, less than one percent of the presented material was familiar to all subjects, and more than 75% of the material was classified as "unknown" by more than half of the subjects. Therefore, it seems necessary to draw the conclusion that most of the material from Skarpa's collection must be regarded as obsolete from a contemporary perspective. The results of the present study clearly demonstrate the need for a corpus of contemporarily familiar Croatian proverbs.

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