Original scientific paper
Comparisons of the Value Orientations of Several our Local Languages (Eseker, Lika, Đakovo and Split)
Josip Janković
orcid.org/0009-0001-2788-0330
Abstract
The work is dedicated to the research of local dialects, Eseker (Đuretić, "Eseker, Small Dictionary of Eseker"), and Sv. Rok (Japunčić, "Taslak, Dictionary of St. Rok") and their mutual and comparison with the previously researched Đakovo and Split speech. Analysis of the urban, Slavonic, speech of the Germans settled in the city of Osijek and the rural mountain speech of Sveti Rok according to the representation of negatively and positively connoted words, nouns, verbs and adjectives, and their comparison within and between the two speeches was made. It was found that there is a statistically significant difference at the level (P < 0.02) between the number of positively and negatively connoted words in Esekese local speech as well as in Lika (Sveti Rok), where the difference is slightly less statistically significant (P < 0.05). Furthermore, a difference between the number of positively and negatively connoted words between Esekera and Lika, Esekera and Split, Esekera and Đakovica, Lika and Đakovica was found, and the only statistically significant difference between Lika and Split (P < 0.5) speech was not found. These data impose several questions to which it seems advisable to look for answers, and they relate to the unknowns about the existence of differences in the number of positively and negatively connoted words in other local languages in Croatia, between them and and the standard Croatian language and possibly the standard Croatian language in compared to other European and other languages. The following are questions that enter the corpus of psycholinguistics and whether the characteristics of these individual speeches have an impact on the upbringing of new generations, their self-image, basic security, self-confidence, selfesteem, adaptation (emotional, social, professional), personality structure, their academic achievements, local temperaments and mentalities and ultimately mental health?
Keywords
Esekese speech; Lika speech, Đakovica speech; Split speech; semantics of words; significance of the difference
Hrčak ID:
319805
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Publication date:
29.12.2023.
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