Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje (Jan 2017)
Workers’ language in the Pula socialist period bulletin Uljanik
Abstract
In the spirit of socialist self-management and the aspirations to satisfy the working class’s right to inform and be informed, numerous gazettes were started by companies and local organisations in Istria during the second half of the 20th century. An important place amongst them, as a valuable source for the study of language in Istria of the socialist period, was held by the Uljanik, the magazine of the eponymous Pula shipyard, which was published in Pula from 1954 to 1990. This paper analyses the orthographical, morphological, syntactical, word-formational, lexical and stylistic features of the magazine, which are then compared to the normative rules of the handbooks and other publications with the aim to determine the extent to which the language of the Uljanik was in accord with the norm of the period. The analysis of all the features provides insight into the real situation of the language and orthography and evaluates the influence of the language policy and its tendencies on the language of the media in Istria in this period. A special emphasis is put on stylistic characteristics which are susceptible to the influence of the political expression in this type of texts. In addition, a content analysis of the articles has been carried out in the attempt to see how much language problems were discussed among workers.
