Croatian Blends in the 1980s (Feral’s First 10 Years)

Scientific paper - Original scientific paper

• Title (croatian): Hrvatske stopljenice u 1980-ima (Prvih 10 godina Ferala)
• Author: Ivan Marković https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0005-5768
• Editor: Robert Bońkowski
• Editor: Milica Lukić
• Editor: Krešimir Mićanović
• Editor: Paulina Pycia-Košćak
• Editor: Sanja Zubčić
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Croatian language and literature)
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Philology; Croatian Studies

Abstract (english)

The paper is a report on the yet unreaserched corpus of Croatian blends collected from the first ten yearly volumes of the satirical weekly Feral or Feral Tribune. Basic formal characteristics of the blends are further expounded. Three findings are brought forward. Firstly, blends were rare in Feral until 1989, when they became very frequent, and equal in form and content to blends in subsequent Feral Tribune. Secondly, in the 1980s there were more blends in the weekly Nedjeljna Dalmacija than in Feral, which was a supplement to Nedjeljna Dalmacija; this gives us a better idea of the general pulse of Croatian blending in the 1980s. Thirdly, comics author Ivica Bednjanec remains, as far as we know, the most prolific blend-maker of the decade. The following was established regarding semantic and formal characteristics of the blends in Feral. First, 80% of a total of 210 blends are nouns. Second, 46% of blends consist of a name as one of their components. In 61% of cases, the name is the first blend component. Third, a relatively large number of blends have the acronym (13%) as one of their components. In 69% of cases, the acronym is the first blend component. Fourth, the first blend component tends to be somewhat shorter in general. The ratio of the number of syllables in the analyzed corpus is 1.00 : 1.18. Fifth, there are extremely few blends with a simultaneous clipping of the ending of the first and the beginning of the second component. The blends of the analyzed corpus are based on the overlapping of the same phonetic material of the first and the second components.

Abstract (croatian)

Izvještava se o neistraženu korpusu hrvatskih stopljenica prikupljenih iz prvih deset godišta satiričkoga tjednika Feral ili Feral Tribune te se iznose njihove osnovne formalne odlike. Utvrđuje se troje. Prvo, stopljenice su u Feralu rijetke sve do 1989, kad postaju izrazito česte, a oblikom i sadržajem iste onima u kasnijem Feral Tribuneu. Drugo, više stopljenica nađeno je u tjedniku Nedjeljna Dalmacija iz 1980-ih negoli u Feralu, koji je u Nedjeljnoj Dalmaciji bio prilog, čime stječemo bolji uvid u opću sliku hrvatskoga stapanja u 1980-ima. Treće, najplodniji tvorac stopljenica u 1980-ima, koliko zasad znamo, ostaje strip-crtač Ivica Bednjanec. Što se značenjskih i obličnih odlika stopljenica u Feralu tiče, utvrđuje se sljedeće. Prvo, 80% od ukupno 210 stopljenica jesu imenice. Drugo, 46% stopljenica kao jednu od svojih sastavnica ima ime. U 61% slučajeva ime je prva sastavnica stopljenice. Treće, relativno velik broj stopljenica kao jednu od svojih sastavnica ima akronim (13%). U 69% slučajeva akronim je prva sastavnica stopljenice. Četvrto, prva sastavnica stopljenice načelno će biti nešto kraća. Odnos broja slogova u obrađenome korpusu jest 1,00 : 1,18. Peto, izrazito su rijetke stopljenice u kojima bi došlo do istodobnog obrezivanja dočetka prve i početka druge sastavnice. Stopljenice obrađenoga korpusa temelje se na pretapanju istoga fonetskoga materijala prve i druge sastavnice.

• Keywords (english): blends; (lexical) blending; overlapping; Croatian; Ivica Bednjanec; Feral Tribune
• Keywords (croatian): (leksičke) stopljenice; (leksičko) stapanje; pretapanje; hrvatski; Ivica Bednjanec; Feral Tribune
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Original scientific paper
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Publication title: Periferno u hrvatskom jeziku, kulturi i društvu : zbornik radova 2. svezak
• Numbering: pp. 95-124
• ISBN: 978-83-226-4053-1
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.31261/PN.4038.07
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:968448
• Publication: 2021
• Conference: Title: Periferno u hrvatskom jeziku, književnosti i kulturi : međunarodni znanstveni skup; Location: Katowice – Sosnowiec, Poland; Start date: 2019-05-07; End date: 2019-05-09; Assembly type: Lecture
• Document URL: https://doi.org/10.31261/PN.4038.07
• Type of resource: Text
• Publisher: Wydział Humanistyczny Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Sveučilište u Osijeku, Sveučilište u Rijeci, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
• Publishing place: Katowice – Zagreb – Osijek – Rijeka
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2021-11-30 17:01:50