Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21857/ypn4oc1vq9

On Croatian slang in 1912

Ivan Marković ; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

Abstract

The paper reports on the hitherto unreported work of the lawyer Mate Malinar on the cant of the Mitrovica penitentiary from 1912. Thus, systematic research of substandard Croatian varieties are moved thirty-odd years further into the past from the work of Josip Hamm from 1939-1940. The jargon lexical layer in Franjo Seifert’s notes from the Lepoglava penitentiary, also from 1912, is then analyzed. Contrary to the common belief that slang is extremely transient, it is established that there is a significant amount of lexemes that have remained part of Croatian or precisely speaking Zagreb slang to this day, in the same or similar meaning.

Keywords

jargon, cant, slang, colloquial language, Croatian, Mate Malinar, Franjo Seifert, Franjo Kuhač

Hrčak ID:

263108

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/263108

Publication date:

1.10.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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