Što je novogovor učinio hrvatskomu jeziku?
What did Newspeak do to Croatian?

Summary/Abstract: In the period of totalitarianism Slavic languages were especially affected by the phenomenon that G. Orwell (1984) named newspeak. lt is characterized by the so called empty words, semantic black holes and semantic inflation. This resulted in the semantic devaluation of the public language, primarily in the field of political discourse, and thereby also in the relativization of the literary language form. Seeing a general decline of language culture in all Slavic countries, linguists and literary scholars warn that this decline has not been stopped by the social changes in the early 90s. The confirmation of this fact is found in the reappearance of new speak in the first post-totalitarian years. In this context the situation of the Croatian standard is being considered.

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