Summary
Ivo Žanić: The Linguistic Republic
Sociolinguist Ivo Žanić opens up a series of important questions of the present and future of the Croatian language in a broad vision that includes migration towards Zagreb and coastal cities, social psychology, relations between rural/urban, center/periphery, north/south... For the first time, entertainment music festivals were included in the language practices that shaped the Croatian language landscape in a unique way in Europe - Split, Zagreb, Krapina, MIK, and not only dialects those from textbooks and recitals, but also those to which you sing, dance and jump at the concerts of Gustaf, Đavol, Šo!Mazgoon and Zadruga. The language games in the songs Azra, Cold Beer and No Smoking are seen as a cultural whole with Renaissance epistles and satires from the 18th and 19th centuries. In the category of language experience, the author equally analyzes what professional linguists said, and what Relja Bašić, Vice Vukov, Šajeta, Oliver Dragojević, Vladimir Bakarić, Franjo Tuđman and Saša Antić from TBF, what schools taught us, and what Our Little misto, Zagreb slang in Polet and anglicisms in the blogs of teenagers from Međimurje, after all, why is it that the people of Zagreb and Dalmatians find their speech more prestigious than standard Croatian... All this was researched and interpreted in a modern and innovative way, written casually and wittily. era, and rock and genres derived from it. His firm position is that it is impossible to investigate the whole language and the dynamics of prestige and linguistic stereotypes if the genres of popular culture are not taken into account. – prof. Ph.D. Anita Peti-Stantić
Ivo Žanić (Split, 1954) is a full professor of sociolinguistics and media language at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Zagreb, author of a number of books, discussions and essays in these and related anthropological-cultural disciplines. As he previously worked in journalism for ten years, then two in publishing, and another ten as a freelance writer, researcher and editor, there is no work related to the spoken, written, printed, and now music-based word that he has not performed in some capacity and in some genre.
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