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https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.47960/3029-3103.2025.11.151
SLOVENIAN PERCEPTION OF NEOLOGISMS IN CROATIAN LANGUAGE
Igor Ivašković
; Sveučilište u Ljubljani, Ekonomski fakultet
Sažetak
The article explores the Slovenian attitude towards neologisms in Croatian and
Slovenian language. In the first part, the research focuses on the dissemination
of news about new words in the Croatian language, highlighting the main theses
promoted in Slovenian media. Over the past 20 years, the Croatian language has
often been portrayed as a result of language policy aiming to separate it from
“Serbo-Croatian” by adopting Slovenian words. In this context, neologisms in
the Croatian language were depicted as part of this “coercive” language policy.
At the same time, less attention was paid to neologisms in the Slovenian langu-
age in media intended for the general public, which somewhat influenced the mistaken impression that contemporary Slovenian language has fewer neologi-
sms than Croatian. The results of empirical research indicate that Slovenes are
relatively unfamiliar with neologisms in Slovenian, and even less so with those
in the Croatian language. It is important to note that particularly younger and
more educated generations of the Slovenian population, who have received their
education within the educational system of independent Republic of Slovenia, do
not perceive neologisms in a negative light. They also do not consider Slovenian
and Croatian languages to have too many neologisms, but rather see them more
as a means of language development.
Ključne riječi
Croatian language; Slovenian language; Slovenia; neologisms.
Hrčak ID:
351372
URI
Datum izdavanja:
1.7.2025.
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