Essays on American Society and Character for Advanced Students of English as a Foreign Language.
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In this book, Ivo Pranjković (b. 1947), one of the most influential contemporary Croatian linguists, brings a lucid, polemical and chronicling panorama of Croatian linguistics from the mid-20th century to the early 1990s.
The work Nerezinski beseduâr is a dictionary of the speech of Nerezine on the island of Lošinj, which has almost 12,600 lexicographical entries, and is accompanied by contributions from local phraseology, paremiology and toponymy.
The Grammar of the Croatian or Serbian Literary Language (first ed. 1899, third 1963, Matica hrvatska) is a classic normative grammar of the Štokavian (Vukonian) type: sounds, forms, word formation, syntax.
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.
In the book, Todorov examines the relationship between the production of discourse (rhetoric) and its interpretation (hermeneutics), focusing on verbal symbolism – the phenomenon of indirect meaning that builds on direct, literal meaning.
Guiraud defines semiology as the science of signs and sign systems. He starts from Saussure's idea that language is the model for the study of all other signs.