Folia onomastica Croatica, No. 2, 1993.
Original scientific paper
The elements of other languages or dialects in the nicknames
Mira Menac-Mihalić
Abstract
The author analyses the elements of other languages or dialects in the nicknames of various Croat speeches. Nicknames usually belong to the same system as the speech off their origin, but markedness as their essential feature can be realized by creating nicknames that are foreign in some of the language levels (lexicology, phonology, word formation). In the whole explored area English is the most frequent foreign system. Other foreign languages are much less represented, they appear on a more limited territory. Interdialectal interferences are specially marked because they can be immediately recognized as foreign. There are two opposite tendencies characterizing the attitude of the speakers towards the foreign elements: their exaggerating oravoiding.
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158412
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Publication date:
10.5.1993.
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