Naslov
Features in the Croatian speech of three generations of Croatian-Australians

Autori
Hlavac, Jim ; Stolac, Diana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Diaspora Language Contact. The Speech of Croatian Speakers Abroad

Urednik/ci
Hlavac, Jim ; Stolac, Diana

Izdavač
Walter de Gruyter

Grad
Berlin

Godina
2021

Raspon stranica
493-549

ISBN
9781501511813

Ključne riječi
Contact Linguistics ; Morpho-Syntactic Change ; Code-Switching ; diaspora, second generation, Croatian language, English language, Australia

Sažetak
This chapter focuses on the speech of three generations of Croatian-Australians. The chapter is foregrounded by situational and sociolinguistic features specific to Australia. These include: history of contact, vintages of emigration, status of Croatian in Australia, number of Croatian- heritage residents, number of Croatian-speakers and their geographic distribution and socio- economic profile, infrastructure (referring to schools, sporting facilities, cultural organisations), data on domain-specific use of Croatian, maintenance and shift and level of contact with Croatia. The larger section of the chapter is devoted to a linguistic description of a large corpus of recorded spoken data consisting of multiple samples. Analysis is conducted on the following: lexicon and pragmatics ; semantic transfers, loan translations and de-semanticised verbs ; code-switching ; morphology and syntax. Analysis of the above makes reference to other, congruent studies of Croatian or other Slavic languages in diaspora environments, as well as to contemporary contact linguistic frameworks to interpret and account for the linguistic phenomena documented.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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