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A direct, enjoyable and humorous read, and all of this is primarily thanks to the magic of storytelling - Nives Opačić tells a thousand and one stories about every word.
The Dictionary of Šatrovci Speech is a pioneering lexicographic work documenting Šatrovci speech, a specific form of Croatian jargon. This is a key work for the study of Croatian jargon and its cultural role.
The book is still required reading at philological faculties today because it systematically connects language with literature and social context for the first time. It is written clearly, without ideological exclusivity, which was a rarity in 1990.
In his lecture Linguistics and Poetics, Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) explores the relationship between language and literature, arguing that poetics is a subdivision of linguistics that deals with what makes a verbal message a work
