Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguistico

Languages in contact: a case of linguistic prestige The article aims to offer a review of the influences exerted by the Italian language (and the Venetian dialect) on the Serbian literary language as well as on the local dialects. These impacts date back to the Middle Ages and, in practice uninterr...

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Main Author: Mila Samardžić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Primorska 2020-12-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Hereditati
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description Languages in contact: a case of linguistic prestige The article aims to offer a review of the influences exerted by the Italian language (and the Venetian dialect) on the Serbian literary language as well as on the local dialects. These impacts date back to the Middle Ages and, in practice uninterruptedly, persist to the present day. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how, due to socio-economic and cultural circumstances, Italian has been able to establish itself as a prestigious language compared to Serbian and how the relationship between the two languages over the centuries has always been essentially monodirectional.
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spelling doaj.art-efe361f933ea4571b4468f79724ac7542022-12-21T23:53:12ZengUniversity of PrimorskaStudia Universitatis Hereditati2350-54432020-12-0182112110.26493/2350-5443.8(2)11-21Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguisticoMila Samardžić0Università di Belgrado, Facoltà di filologiaLanguages in contact: a case of linguistic prestige The article aims to offer a review of the influences exerted by the Italian language (and the Venetian dialect) on the Serbian literary language as well as on the local dialects. These impacts date back to the Middle Ages and, in practice uninterruptedly, persist to the present day. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate how, due to socio-economic and cultural circumstances, Italian has been able to establish itself as a prestigious language compared to Serbian and how the relationship between the two languages over the centuries has always been essentially monodirectional.language loanscontact linguisticsitalianserbianlinguistic prestige
spellingShingle Mila Samardžić
Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguistico
Studia Universitatis Hereditati
language loans
contact linguistics
italian
serbian
linguistic prestige
title Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguistico
title_full Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguistico
title_fullStr Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguistico
title_full_unstemmed Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguistico
title_short Lingue in contatto: un caso di prestigio linguistico
title_sort lingue in contatto un caso di prestigio linguistico
topic language loans
contact linguistics
italian
serbian
linguistic prestige
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