The Croatian Language in Expanding Transnational Space
The Croatian Language in Expanding Transnational Space

Summary/Abstract: This contribution analyses dynamics of the Croatian language in the changing social environment and the expanding Australian-Croatian transnational social space. It is a language of communication and adaptation to a new home, a constitutive element of institutional completeness in the Croatian diaspora, and embedded in Australian cultural diversity. Australian-Croatian transnational social space has evolved out of countless linkages at the grass roots level over the past century. Dramatic social, political and technological changes replaced the impact of large scale migration to Australia with the enhanced flow of investment, tourism and return migration to Croatia. Such developments generate new perspectives for the Croatian language in transnational social spaces established from below, providing it with new dynamics of cultural and commercial exchange in addition to representation of identity in a culturally diverse society.

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