Review article
Standard Croatian and Its Disobedient Cities (Or, About an Anticipation of Croatian Sociolinguistics)
Ivo Žanić
; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
1950s were abundant in discussions about Neo-štokavian normative accents and their non-acceptance by speakers in the Zagreb region, especially concerning the accent transfer in loan words. Taking part in the polemics, in 1952 Slavko Pavešić published a paper presenting Croatian speakers’ linguistics practices in a completely new manner, that is, as conditioned by cultural, economic and demographic dynamics of the respective society, urban/rural dichotomy and unique dialectal situation. Founded on such categories, the paper is still impetus-providing and should be considered as a pioneering sociolinguistic study in Croatia.
Keywords
Neo-štokavian accents; dialects; linguistic prestige; urban/rural dichotomy; center/periphery dichotomy
Hrčak ID:
164442
URI
Publication date:
1.12.2015.
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