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The history of European languages records centuries of printing grammar books that described the structures of languages in search of the best models of description. This article highlights two grammatical strategies identified in the first grammar books. The first is an attempt to describe language according to a model that offers the structure of Latin …

The aim of this paper was to investigate the level of uniformity in the use of linguistic terminology in contemporary high school textbooks of the Croatian language created according to the 2019 subject curriculum guidelines. Previous research has pointed to a significant lack of uniformity and inconsistency in the use of linguistic terminology, especially seen …

The language in textbooks should comply with the standard language norm more strictly, which results from the requirement to respect functional and stylistic features of textbook style, which is a substyle of scientific functional style, and from laws and bylaws regulating the requirements and standards for the development of textbooks as teaching resources. Different reasons, …

Due to it being a public activity, speech in Parliament is measured by different standards than language used in the private sphere. When delivering speech in Parliament, its members carry a great social responsibility for the spoken words, weighed for credibility and authenticity, social justifiability and usefulness, tolerance and ethics, and consequently aesthetics, and linguistic …

The COVID-19 virus pandemic affected all spheres of human life, including the language in which new words, phrases and idioms appeared in response to the emerging situation. These new terms as a linguistic reflection of a pandemic are quickly becoming part of our daily vocabulary. Therefore, it is important to investigate which new words and …