Zbornik Lovranšćine, Vol. 10 No. 1, 2023.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.54130/zl.10.1.6
Zagreb Fog and March Bora: Meteorological Expressions in the Background of Local Identities
Daniela Katunar
; Odsjek za lingvistiku, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Jan Defrančeski
orcid.org/0000-0003-1811-2396
; Sveučilišni centar za integrativnu bioetiku Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
This study investigates the role of meteorological expressions in conceptualizing and contextualizing local identities with special reference to Lovranski list, a local news publication of the municipality of Lovran, Croatia. From a linguistic perspective, meteorological expressions refer to lexical and syntactic means that serve to describe and categorize the domain of meteorological weather and meteorological events (Eriksen et al. 2012; Katunar and Simeon 2023), and they also play a role in the study of linguistic data from the perspective of folk meteorology (cf. Sijerković 1996; Gluhak 2004). From the perspective of ordinary language philosophy (e.g., Wittgenstein 1998, 2007, 2009), meteorological expressions can also be understood as lexical-syntactic means that contain semantic features relevant for understanding the (local) identity of certain communities (e.g., Zagreb fog and March bora).
Keywords
ordinary language philosophy; linguistics; Ludwig Wittgenstein; meteorological expressions; Lovranski list
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Publication date:
27.12.2023.
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