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Grammar and Spelling Choices in Contemporary Croatian Language Textbooks

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, …

In Search of the Competent Speaker

Any investigation into the accentual reality of the Croatian language is based on listening to communicative practice and in this case the investigation is limited to specific groups within the language community. Who are the competent speakers of the Croatian language? The literature mentions the model speaker, the ideal speaker, and the professional speaker. Precise …