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The way in which we understand and analyze language has been so changed that believing that one nation speaks one language is slowly becoming a myth. Changes in language perception and defining culture are stronger thanks to globalization process, and those changes are reflected in the best way in observing influence of English, one of the strongest lingua franca today, on the other languages. In former Yugoslavia are as that influence started after the Second World War. In that way the oryof languages in contact became reality in this area as well and stayed dominant in sociolinguistic analyses of the English language influence on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian, mostly through the works by Rudolf Filipović. The most obvious indicator of what is going on when those languages come into contact are the anglicisms which can be shortly defined as words originating from English language and culture. Reaction of academics and wider public to anglicisms have been both positive and negative.The final aim, in this case, is to show those reactions and tackle the topic of language purism and facts that some academics decided that it was not important if “kahva”, “kava” or “kafa” were drunk as long as it was not “coffee”.
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This paper deals with the analysis of sports discourse in Croatian through the theoretical framework offered by conceptual metaphor theory. Within this framework, certain metaphorical expressions found in sports discourse are analyzed as expressions of two conceptual metaphors: sport is war and sport is force. The analysis of these metaphorical expressions combines the methodology of cognitive linguistics with corpus linguistics, resulting in the proposal of a new method for discourse analysis in general. In our research, we introduce the notion of the specialized digitized corpus as a basis for further quantitative and qualitative research. On the basis of the specialized digitized corpus created for the purposes of this research, it is shown how the formation of sports discourse is dependent on three categories of metaphorical expressions relative to the degree of their conventionalization within sports discourse: (a) conventionalized, (b) semi-conventionalized, and (c) innovative metaphorical expressions. Each of these categories is analyzed according to their frequency and various aspects of meaning that it entails. Through the introduction of the semi-conventionalized metaphorical expression category, we aim to examine the gradable line between language creativity and conventionality as it is formed within the discourse of sports.
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This paper investigates the syntactic structure of nominal expressions in Croatian and proposes their analysis in terms of a split DP. Within the split DP-approach, the nominal left periphery contains functional projections DefP, FocP, TopP and DP. I will show that these functional categories host different lexical items (e.g. determiners, demonstratives, possessives, etc.) that contribute to the (in)definiteness and specificity of the Croatian noun phrase. A reanalysis of the nominal left periphery in terms of a split DP allows for the explanation of DP-internal word order variations, along with some other syntactic phenomena.
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In this work, based on relevant methodology and current literature in the field of normativity, errors in writing abbreviations in secondary education students’ essays are reviewed. The research covered 500 students (1594 essays in the Serbian language and literature) one classical and one specialized grammar school students, as well as two secondary technical schools. The work aimed to determine whether the students and in which way incorporated orthographic rules and, in connection with abbreviating words and expressions, when their orthographic knowledge is not the focus (unlike tests aimed at testing and evaluation achievements in the field orthography).Survey research has shown that students rarely use abbreviations in their writing tasks (at the random sample of 100 essays there was a total of 42 abbreviations), so that there is a small number of errors (only 35 errors were recorded in the use of abbreviations), what is undoubtedly influenced by a type of written text, lack of knowledge of orthographic norms when it comes to abbreviations, which has been confirmed by a short test given after the research.
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Due to its inconsistency, the prosodic norm of the Serbian language has generated a lot of discussion within the linguistic community. What has particularly been obvious in recent times is the major discrepancy between the prescribed and the actual language in use. Deviations from the norm relate to the sequence of accents and the repertoire of prosodic units. However, one of the most unstable positions is considered to be the pronunciation of the post-accentual length, which, based on the conducted research, is often equalized with the post-accentual shortness in younger population. This paper studies the pronunciation of the post-accentual length in the speech of western Serbia, and employs an acoustic analysis of duration and listening perception to examine the patterns of the disappearance of the post-accentual length (depending on the position within a word, type of syllable, type of accent, etc.).
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Andrija Kujundžić est reformateur de l’orthographie croate, ou bien de la graphie au commencement du 19. sied e en Bosnie et Herzegovine. Ce franciscain bosnien a oublie ses solutions graphiques dans la grammaire Institutiones grammaticae latinae idiomate illyrico de Štipan Marijanović qui les promouvait le plus efficacement avec ses fameux oeuvres, les grammaires latines et avec un abecedaire scolaire croate. En accord avec les suggestions graphiques de Kujundžić, deux ou trois decennies on ecrivait (en B .-H .) en caracte re s romains: entre 1822. et 1850. Au debut de la deuxieme moitie du 19. sied e la graphie de Kujundžić a e te repoussee par les solutions graphieques de Ljudevit G a j, generalement acceptees par le peuple croate. Kujundžić a du merite pour le developpement culturel du peuple croate au 19. siede en Bosnie et Herzegovine. Ce travail-ci essaye de contribuer a la determination de la place de Kujundžić dans la philologie croate, et a l’eclaircissement de son activite culturelle et ainsi l’arracher de l’oubli injustifie.
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The article attempts to present the comparison of two translator’s achievements: Zbigniew Dmitroca’s Radio Swoboda and Jerzy Czech’s Wdrapałem się na piedestał. The anthologist’s work is considered here as both the act of translation and revelation — joining the translation of literary texts and their compilation in anthologies with scrutinizing the particular writers and literary phenomena as well as the process of translation itself, and introducing a new, transforming quality to the native poetry. A translator-anthologist can be perceived in that perspective as a link between two literary cultures, and also as an initiator of changes and an independent creator who develops, in his own language and on his own conditions, a certain new Polish canon of Russian poetry
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The paper considers the anomalous use of definiteness and gender in Bulgarian noun phrases containing hypocoristic names, nicknames or sometimes even legal personal names. Proper names of people, being semantically definite, usually do not take the definite article in Bulgarian. But in the cases considered it is just the opposite – in informal conversation, in fiction or in ironic statements the use of a definite article is either obligatory or facultative depending on the formal and semantic features of the names. The factors to trigger the anomalous use described may be the female sex of the designee, the less typical ending of the noun, its being grammatically neuter or its inclusion in an attributive phrase. Thus the female legal personal names (e.g. Marija, Elena) may take a definite article on some special occasions (Marijata, Elenata) but male legal personal names (e.g. Boris) cannot. Male legal or hypocoristic names ending in -o (Stojko, Borko
The paper analyzes antropo-onomastic lexis from the corpus of names from the Parish register of the baptized from the Duvno parish. It was written in Croatian Cyrillics. It is a private register in which a priest, a Glagolitic script user, Father Anton Ljubosović, entered baptisms done by him in Duvno parish and wider. This was later rewritten into the official register. Since that official register was lost in a fire of the parish house in Seonica in 1821, the private register of Father Anton that has been kept up till today is of special value. That is the oldest register of the Duvno parish. At the same time it is the oldest register in the area of Mostar-Duvno diocese. The register encompasses 41 pages with 248 baptism entries. In the Register we have personal names and family names of the children that were baptized in the time span from 1750 til 1758. Names are a mirror of the history and language of a nation and a culture. That is why antroponyms that can be found in old parish registers are of extreme importance for the linguistic, but also for the historical and cultural research. After we have read the antroponyms, we noticed the influence of the orders of the Council of Trent about giving names of the saints because the saints' names are the dominant element of the personal names corpus as well as the family name corpus. The paper is divided into two parts. First we analyze personal names as the oldest layer of antroponymy, according to the manner of formation, form and frequency in the Register. The family name corpus is analyzed in the same way.
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This paper analyzes the structural characteristics of male and female names confirmed in the manuscript collection of folk songs that were recorded in Tešanj area. Structural features of names are compared with the situation in the today's language.
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The first part of the paper provides an overview of the linguistic norm of the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Newspaper, the first official newspaper published during the Austro-Hungarian rule. Insight into the language structure proves that the newspaper used the norms of the Zagreb Philological School and Croatian terminology. The usage of the Zagreb Philological School norms reveals that Bosnian-Herzegovinian press did not always use the same type of language in the period between the Turkish and Austro-Hungarian rule. The second part of the paper is focused on the Austro-Hungarian language policy and language denomination. It is obvious that the Austro-Hungarian administration did not develop clear guidelines related to the implementation of language policy. It is interesting to note that the language used in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian Newspaper was called Bosnian even though it conformed to the Zagreb Philological School norms. Other terms were also in use during the same period e.g. Croatian, Native, Native Bosnian etc.
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Balkan linguistics as a comparative discipline of Indo-European linguistics has to deal with languages spoken in the Balkan peninsula, as there are Bulgarian, Macedonian, Bosnian, Serbian as South Slavic languages, except Croate and Slovene, but also Albanian and Rumanian with its different representations in the Balkans. There are a lot of similarities and parallels between the grammatical forms and lexical elements in these languages, the socalled “Balkanisms”, a term described since the middle of the 19th century. Since this time Balkan linguistics has found and described not only a large number of Balkanisms, but developed also new directions and methods, as there are today the wider fields of “Südosteuropa- Linguistik” and “Eurolinguistik” including not only Balkan languages, but also Baltic and Scandinavian languages. Over the last years the so-called “field-work” has gained importance. This is a method aimed at finding new balkanisms but also aimed at describing their spreading out within the dialects of Balkan languages. Attempts have been made to realize the project of a “Balkan Sprachatlas” in Marburg, but nowadays there seems to be no possibility to continue this project.
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Na pitanje: jesam li, kao korisnik jezikâ i njihov su–kreator (ostvarujući se uglavnom u mediju književnosti, znanosti o književnosti i književne kritike) ili nisam pozvan javno se o jeziku očitovati, kreirati jezičnu politiku, re–kreirati i korigirati jezik(e), imenovati ih i teritorijalno distribuirati, i, na kraju krajeva, osobnim sudjelovanjem u bilo kakvoj inicijativi koja se tiče jezika, odgovorno i kompetentno kao osoba struke1, bezrezervno podržavati inicijative o jeziku, manifeste, pamflete i deklaracije..., moj je odgovor negativan!
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The purpose of the current paper is to display a comparative analysis of the body idioms belonging to two related languages, Russian and Serbian that metaphorically designate human physical and psychical features. A part of the Russian and Serbian idioms contain in their structure a word related to body that function as a symbol. The research of the phraseological material has revealed that phrasemes that have as a head-word a word related to body is one of the most numerous type of phraseological units in both the two Slavic languages.
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