Naslov
Contemporary English influence on Croatian: a university students' perspective

Autori
Drljača Margić, Branka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Language Contact Around the Globe. Proceedings of the LCTG3 Conference / Koll-Stobbe, Amei ; Knospe, Sebastian - Frankfurt : Berlin : Bern : Bruxelles : New York (NY) : Oxford : Beč : Peter Lang, 2014, 73-92

ISBN
978-3-631-62889-8

Skup
Third Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalisation

Mjesto i datum
Greifswald, Njemačka, 30.06.2011. - 02.07.2011

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
English ; Croatian ; linguistic borrowing ; language attitudes

Sažetak
In view of the fact that research on the influence of English on Croatian primarily focused on linguists’ attitudes, while the attitudes of the general public have been largely neglected, the present paper deals with the views of a group of Croatian average speakers. A questionnaire-based study was conducted among 244 students of the University of Rijeka. The findings of the study indicate that today’s presence of Anglicisms is predominantly seen as an inevitable and expected phenomenon, but also as a manifestation of linguistic snobbery. The present use of Anglicisms in Croatian is also largely perceived to result from the lack of the popularization of their native equivalents and from the public’s negative attitudes toward exaggerated purist activities in the history of Croatian. The minority of the respondents fear language or identity loss and relate the present use of Anglicisms to the un(der)development of the Croatian language.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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