Professional paper
Perception of German Loanwords in the Town of Križevci and Its Immediate Area
KRUNOSLAV PUŠKAR
Abstract
In this research we decided upon interviewing people`s ability of recognising true origin and current meaning(s) of 25 different German loanwords, which are either common to the town of Križevci or its immediate rural area and are dialectally strongly marked. Furthermore, because of our personal impression that these certain loanwords are gradually dying away, in this research we concentrated on comparing the findings of three different age groups (with emphasis, of course, placed on the younger (until 18 years) and middle (19-49) age groups), which gave us eventually a considerable insight into people`s perception of loanwords in general, but also into various phenomena such as change of meaning and folk etymology, which have, however, proved unavoidable.
Keywords
Križevci; language contact; ecolinguistics; German loanwords; Kajkavian dialect
Hrčak ID:
52164
URI
Publication date:
10.2.2010.
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