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

Jim Hlavac; Diana Stolac

doi:10.1515/9781501503917-012

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

Jim Hlavac
, Diana Stolac

Translation Studies

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Abstract

This chapter examines Croatian-speakers in Australia and looks at aspects of the Croatian speech of three generations of speakers. Two datasets form the basis of this chapter, containing samples of speech from nearly 200 speakers. The samples of speech were collected over a 21-year time period, from 1996 to 2017, and are based on a variety of data collection methods. This chapter is structured in the following way. The remaining parts of this section present general demographic and sociolinguistic information on Croatianorigin
residents in Australia and on Croatian-speakers in that country. Section 2
presents information on data collection with details of the different groups
of information and different collection periods that make up both datasets.
Section 3 presents data on informants’ sociolinguistic profiles. Section 4 presents and discusses select examples from both datasets according to the following: lexical and pragmatic transference; semantic transference and loan translations; code-switching; morphology and syntax. Section 5 contains the conclusion with findings summarized.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Diaspora Language Contact
Subtitle of host publication	The Speech of Croatian Speakers Abroad
Editors	Jim Hlavac, Diana Stolac
Place of Publication	Berlin Germany
Publisher	De Gruyter Mouton
Pages	493-549
Number of pages	57
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781501503917, 9781501503818
ISBN (Print)	9781501511813
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501503917-012
Publication status	Published - 2021

Publication series

Name	Language Contact and Bilingualism
Publisher	De Gruyter Mouton
Volume	17
ISSN (Print)	2190-698X

Keywords

Contact linguistics
Morpho-syntactic change
code-switching
Croatian language
Heritage language
Croatian in Australia

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Specificity of lexical transfers in the speech of Croatian-Australians: semantic and contextual features of English-origin lexemes in a Croatian-English bilingual corpus

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