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A textbook on the Croatian language (1910), compiled and edited by Dragutin Prohaska. An official publication of the Provincial Government for the needs of trade schools in Croatia and Slavonia, with literary texts, poetry and prose.
Feel the charm, freedom and endearing spontaneity of speech, which with its expansiveness, dynamism and playful violence strongly opposes the norms of the literary language, destroying its framework!
The manual contains works from the field of linguistics, valuable to every student of the theory of the standard Croatian language and linguistic culture, as well as to high school teachers who use new scientific knowledge to improve the teaching of the C
Berruto explains what meaning is in language and how it is formed, interpreted, and transmitted. He elaborates on different approaches to semantics, including the relationship between words, concepts, and reality.
Words are like people: they are born, grow, travel, cross the borders of municipalities, provinces and states, adapt, change nationality and citizenship, reproduce, age and die, and – unlike people, similar to gods – they can also be resurrected.
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.