Professional paper

Examination of Dialectical Linguism and Identity

Ante Pavlov

Abstract

The author tries to examine closely regional and urban dialects as symbolic spaces and to consider their languageness. This is primarily done on the basis of sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics. What the article tries to present are problems of language standardization, the process that forms an artificial construct, and the notion of identity derived either from the standard language or from speaker’s idiom. The conclusions given in the text explain idioms and their speakers as relevant and necessary categories in perceiving and understanding language.

Keywords

language; languageness; (urban; rural; regional) dialect; idiom; standardization; (linguistic) identity; (speech) community; symbolic concepts; speaker

Hrčak ID:

179059

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/179059

Publication date:

1.12.2003.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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