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Language Endangerment: The Case of Native American Languages in the US and Australian Aboriginal Languages
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Marijan Zubčić The present master thesis explores and describes the phenomenon of language endangerment in the United States and Australia. The thesis examines the resemblance between the statistics regarding indigenous languages on the two continents. Throughout the thesis the British colonization is examined as one of the main influences on the linguistic situation in the US and Australia. The topic was chosen as the language endangerment continues in the globalized world of the 21st century,...
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Language Maintenance and Language Shift in Wales
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Tomislav Nebes The Welsh language is the official but not the most used language in Wales. Welsh has developed in a way that differs from the development of many other European languages because of its membership in the United Kingdom. According to the 2011 Census, Welsh is spoken by only 21 percent of the Welsh. This paper therefore investigates the reason why the official language is the minority language, and what is done to encourage people in Wales to learn Welsh. In the process, we consider the...
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Language Policies and Attitudes towards Loanwords – The Case of Anglicisms among Croatian and Italian Youth
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Katarina Grbas The aim of this paper is to investigate the attitudes of Croatian and Italian youth towards anglicisms in their languages. The theoretical part of the thesis discusses English as a lingua franca and describes language contact between English and Croatian as well as Italian. Moreover, the theoretical part provides definitions of linguistic borrowing and anglicisms and explains the language of youth and reasons behind the frequent usage of anglicisms. The first part of the thesis also deals...
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Language Policies and Migration Processes: The Case of English-Croatian Billingualism
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Antonela Bakić This paper aims to show the participants' experiences concerning the language policies of their country of origin and their host country. In order to achieve this aim, the paper is divided into two main parts. The first part is theoretical and is mostly concerned with the language policies of the U.S., the South African Republic, and Croatia. It also encompasses the role of language policies in education. Moreover, the theoretical part also discusses the migration processes in general and...
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Language Policies in English-Dominant Countries: The Case of Spanish and French
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Maja Geljić The main focus of this paper is the analysis of language policies in the following Englishdominant countries: the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, with the emphasis on two major European languages: Spanish and French. The first part of this paper consists of a brief presentation of the definitions of language policy and language planning as well as their types. In the following parts the reader is provided with some important facts about the researched countries...
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Language Policy and Minority Languages in New Zealand
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Katarina Grbas The aim of this paper is to investigate the situation in New Zealand in terms of the
country's language policy and minority languages, which are the New Zealand Sign
Language, Pacific and community languages. The theoretical part of the thesis represents
New Zealand as a country, and gives definitions of language policy and planning and minority
languages. The second part portrays the development of a language policy in New Zealand,
and the process of Māori language revitalization. Later,...
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Language and Gender: A Small-Scale Study of Newspaper Representations of Sexist Language
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Marija Orkić This paper focuses on the analysis of eight newspaper articles representing the issue of sexism in language from two American and two British newspapers. The American newspapers include The New York Times and USA Today, whereas the British newspapers are the Telegraph and The Guardian. The analysis is pointed towards revealing underlying messages of the articles with an attempt to make the author’s attitude towards the referred issue visible. What is also of interest is the way authors...
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Language and Mental Disorders
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Sara Oreč This final paper deals with Language and Mental Disorders. It contains the definition of neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics, explains the process of normal brain functioning and describes most important parts of the brain involved in the language processing. Furthermore, two most common phenomena have been explained and divided into categories. Apart from language disorders, some of the speech disorders have also been listed. Before introducing aphasia, its most common cause has been...
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Language and Reality in David Harrower's "Knives in Hens"
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Šime Šprljan This paper analyzes the connections between language and reality that can be found in David Harrower's play Knives in Hens through the dynamics between the three characters: Young Woman, her husband William and Gilbert the miller. Due to Young Woman's naivety and initial tendency to understand phrases literally, language's arbitrarity is shown and is then analyzed through different sources. Language is shown to be an artificial human product, created with an intent to symbolize reality. It...
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Language and identity in Istria: A sociolinguistic analysis of the digital communication of Istrian people on social networks
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Aurora Garić This study aims to find out how Istrian people express their identities through the use of languages or dialects on social networking sites, particularly on Facebook. As one of the biggest social media platforms, Facebook is home to a wide range of groups dedicated to preserving regional identities and dialects. This study focuses on the Region of Istria since, due to its history, it is an area of great linguistic variety with various spoken languages and dialects. There exist many Facebook...
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Language impairments in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Izabela Franković This undergraduate thesis paper deals with language impairments in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The paper begins with an overview of theories of language impairments in individuals with ASD. Theories which were discussed include Theory of mind deficit, Weak central coherence theory, Executive functioning deficit theory, and Pragmatic language impairment theory. Afterwards, a trajectory of language acquisition in autistic individuals is provided, along with its distinct...
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