Turkish Borrowings in Serbo-Croat Analyzed from Sociolinguistic Point of View Cover Image

О турцизмима у српскохрватском језику са социолингвистичког становишта
Turkish Borrowings in Serbo-Croat Analyzed from Sociolinguistic Point of View

Author(s): Hanka Glibanović-Vajzović
Subject(s): Lexis, Sociolinguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: Serbo-Croatian language; Turkish borrowings; socio-linguistic; lexical system; communicative competence;

Summary/Abstract: The first part of this paper discusses the place of Turkish borrowings in the lexical system of Serbo-Croat. The author’s main, concern is however the impact that these worlds have on the speaker’s communicative competence. The author also investigates all those aspects of the specific social contexts or speech situations which condition the occurrence of words of 'Oriental origin in Serbo-Croat.

  • Issue Year: 15/1986
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 141-147
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Croatian