Review article
https://doi.org/10.17234/Croatica.68.9
SLOBODAN NOVAK ON LANGUAGE
Lada Badurina
orcid.org/0000-0003-4588-9870
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Rijeka, Croatia
Ivo Pranjković
orcid.org/0000-0002-0378-3368
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article discusses how Slobodan Novak, throughout his entire literary career, paid attention to language, and occasionally wrote about issues of the Croatian language, language policy, and orthography. Most of these writings were published in the 1990s, when he closely followed the turbulent events in Croatian language policy and orthography, and expressed his views on them. The paper also analyzes in more detail some of Novak's positions on language issues, and notes that his reflections on the language of literature are particularly interesting and generally acceptable. However, the authors also critically refer to some of Novak's texts published in the nineties. The following texts were analyzed in the paper, among others: "Kundakom u čelo", "Elektronski mozak raskrinkao poete", "Naivno razmatranje u kojemu nema mjesta smijehu", "Jezik kao poluprerađevina", "Je li izmještanje isto što i premještanje", "Zov živa jezika" (about a phrase "Silk Road") and "Kultura i jezična kultura" (on lexicographical works in the 1990s, on some orthographic issues, on the language of the profession and on clumsiness in journalistic language, etc.).
Keywords
Slobodan Novak; Croatian language; language policy; orthography; language of literary work
Hrčak ID:
325666
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Publication date:
30.12.2024.
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