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CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PETRINJA LOCAL IDIOM IN THE WORK BY MILAN DUJNIĆ CHRISTMAS IN PETRINJA. AN OVERVIEW OF CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS IN 2 ACTS

Bozica Vuic ; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The fundamental task of Croatian language teaching according to the current curriculum is to teach students how to communicate in the Croatian standard language in various communicative and functional contexts. The use of the Croatian standard language does not exclude vernaculars, dialects, local speech and other idioms. Language teaching in lower grades of primary schools takes the student's inherent speech, which had already been acquired in the immediate environment, as a starting point. The cultural and methodological reasons for introducing dialectal content into the curriculum are also reflected in the representation of dialectal texts in textbooks published in the period between 2000 and 2010. Migrations due to war and postwar circumstances, the influence of mass media particularly television, the internet and social networks influenced the local idiom/language of Petrinja to unquestionably and inevitably change.  Therefore, it is necessary to note and describe the previous state in language/speech. In that attempt, the book Christmas in Petrinja. An overview of Christmas customs in two acts by Milan Dujnić, teacher trainer from Petrinja, served the purpose.  The book was published in Petrinja 1944 in the print shop V. Massari and I. Glavinić.  This paper will present the morphological and lexico-semantic description of the text. Using contrastive analysis the difference in the current speech of Petrinja and the Croatian standard language will be indicated. The methodological approach to this drama play implies its use in teaching language, literature and language expression.

Keywords

dialect; contrastive analysis; curriculum; methodological approach; morphological and lexico-semantic description

Hrčak ID:

78074

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/78074

Publication date:

29.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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