Naslov
„Their language sounds aggressive“: a matched guise study with Serbian and Croatian

Autori
Golubović, Jelena ; Sokolić, Nikolina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Phonetics in Europe. Perception and Production

Urednik/ci
Van Bezooijen, Renee ; Gooskens, Charlotte

Izdavač
Peter Lang

Grad
Frankfurt

Godina
2013

Raspon stranica
35-57

ISBN
978-3-631-63440-0

Ključne riječi
Croatian, Serbian, language attitudes

Sažetak
The disintegration of Yugoslavia also brought about the disintegration of what used to be its principal standard language, Serbo-Croatian. The present study looks at the atti- tudes of the speakers of Croatian to the speakers of Serbian and vice versa, using the matched guise technique. The participants listened to the Serbian and Croatian recordings of the fable The North Wind and the Sun spoken by a Serbian- Croatian bi- lingual, as well as the recordings of the same text in seven other languages used as fill- ers. The participants were divided into several age groups: some of them remember the war years quite vividly, others only have vague recollections, while the youngest groups were born after it ended. The results show that the speakers of Serbian have slightly more negative attitudes to Croatian than vice versa. Surprisingly, adult groups on both sides exhibited neutral attitudes to the neighbouring language while the most negative attitudes were found in the group of 13-year-old native speakers of Serbian. The amount of contact with the neighbouring language was shown to correlate positively with the attitudes to it. In addition, some speakers of Serbian perceive Croatian as the same variety as Serbian, but one that was deliberately changed and raised to the status of a separate language.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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