Original scientific paper

The lexical norm in Croatian maritime lexicography of the 20th century

Joško Božanić ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Katarina Lozić Knezović orcid.org/0000-0002-1999-010X ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Anita Runjić-Stoilova orcid.org/0000-0001-5060-2083 ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu
Marijana Tomelić Ćurlin ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu

Abstract

The authors discuss unresolved issues concerning lexical standardization in Croatian maritime lexicography. On the one hand, the Croatian lexical norm in the 19th century was mostly determined by the criteria of the Croatian Vukovci, who determined lexical “purity” by whether a lexical item was used in rural Neoštokavian varieties. On the other hand, the broad and very versatile maritime lexis was identified as “foreign” (due to Italic etymologies). This created a huge gap in Croatian normative maritime lexicography, which to some extent still exists today, in spite of the fact that Anić's dictionary of the Croatian language introduced numerous Croatian maritime expressions, giving them normative legitimacy. This work analyzes the issues of the lexical standardization in the Croatian maritime lexicography, with special regard to the millennial existence of these lexemes in the spoken language and the current invasion of English expressions into the Croatian maritime lexis, caused by the revolution of nautical tourism. The authors analyze the standpoints and results of two mutually opposed schools of maritime lexical standardization: the Bakar School, represented by Božo Babić, and the school of Juraj Carić, who advocates the principle that alloglottal words are inveterate in the spoken Croatian language. The authors document their arguments with examples from numerous dictionaries of Croatian containing general and maritime lexis. This analysis includes semantic fields such as fish, boat, fishing, sailing, folk weather forecast, maritime space lexis, etc.

Keywords

lexical norm; maritime expressions; lingua franca

Hrčak ID:

78603

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/78603

Publication date:

13.3.2012.

Article data in other languages: english

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