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Ćiovo Peninsula Resident Self-Assessment of Dialect Stigmatization and the Influence of Informal Learning on the Preservation of Cultural Identity

Dialects are carriers and (partly) creators of massive culture. The function of dialects is to symbolize the identity and cohesion of society, i.e. to signify the social belonging of the speaker. By protecting the vernacular and regional speech, the customs and the cultural identity are protected and its speakers are respected. Stigmatization of dialects entails the language forms that are negatively evaluated by society. On the island of Čiovo, especially Okrug Gornji, the linguistic identity of the inhabitants has changed significantly in the last 30 years (especially after the Civil War). That begs whether the inhabitants who speak the so-called “regional“ dialect experience discrimination during its use, i.e. whether the value judgment toward the dialect changes in a way that disrupts the cultural identity of a locality and what the role of informal learning that arises from experience and the influence of society on the attitude, knowledge, and ability of an individual is. This paper will attempt to give an answer to the problem question of what effect informal learning has on the preservation of cultural identity, as well as give an overview of data regarding the perception of the residents of the island of Čiovo of the influence of language identity change on the dialect of its residents. The research will be conducted in the period from January to the end of March 2020. A questionnaire will be used as the research instrument. The representative sample will include the residents of Okrug Gornji, aged 25 to 65. This research paper should make a contribution to this topic in a theoretical and practical sense. By way of elaboration of theory and its empirical counterpart, this paper could provide valuable insight into future research and indicate an increasing need for research on the topic of dialect stigmatization and its purposeful connection to informal learning as a possible preventive measure aimed at preserving cultural identity, since by protecting language, all customs, habits, knowledge, and abilities, performance and expression, instruments, and handicrafts are protected, as are the behaviors with which the people and the community grow and live.

Dialect Stigmatization, Informal Learning, Globalization, Cultural Identity, Values

CIP catalogue for this book is available from the National and University Library in Zagreb under the number 001097941 EDITORIAL BOARD Dionigi Albera, PhD, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IDEMEC, Aix-en-Provence, France Vlatko Cvrtila, PhD, VERN' University, Zagreb, Croatia Charles Farrugia, PhD, Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, University of Malta, Malta Æeljko Holjevac, PhD, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia Pavao Rudan, Academician, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia Vlado ©akiÊ, PhD, Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar, Zagreb, Croatia Michael Ursinus, PhD, Heidelberg University, Germany REVIEWERS Juan Carlos Radovich, PhD, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Anthropology Department, Argentina Petko Hristov, PhD, Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, Bulgaria