Language & linguistics

The Story of Language - Revised Edition

From the dawn of time to the mid-twentieth century, Mario Pei discusses the formation and development of language - the weapon by which mankind has advanced from savagery to civilization.

Tvorba riječi u hrvatskom književnom jeziku: Nacrt za gramatiku

In his work Word Formation in the Croatian Literary Language – A Grammar Draft, Stjepan Babić systematically discusses word formation in standard Croatian and lays the foundation for contemporary morphological analysis.

Umberto Eco i nogomet

Trifonas analyzes how Umberto Eco dismantles football as a mass spectacle through semiotics. The book exposes how sport becomes a powerful instrument of social control and political manipulation.

Ususret Arijadni

Linguistic and cultural essays on transmediality

Veliki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika

The Large Dictionary of the Croatian Language by Vladimir Anić includes more than 120,000 entries. It is a basic handbook of contemporary Croatian vocabulary with definitions, grammar, accents, and examples of usage.

Zanimljiva gramatika

This book is a collection of unusual stories about the language, its grammatical structure and spelling. Here, the reader is not a mere recipient of grammar lessons, but an engaged participant in the exciting discovery of the essence of linguistic phenome

Zaustaviti izumiranje jezikâ

The author bases his research on the insight that - if nothing changes - in about a hundred years, out of today's approximately 5,000 living languages, half of them will die out. He is particularly worried about the fact that this cataclysm is taking plac

Život riječi: Etimologija i uporaba