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In the book, Todorov examines the relationship between the production of discourse (rhetoric) and its interpretation (hermeneutics), focusing on verbal symbolism – the phenomenon of indirect meaning that builds on direct, literal meaning.
Koriensko pisavanje (1942) by Bratoljub Klaić is a temporary spelling manual of the Croatian State Office for the Language of the Independent State of Croatia. It promotes etymological-root (morphological) spelling instead of phonetic spelling.
The book is still required reading at philological faculties today because it systematically connects language with literature and social context for the first time. It is written clearly, without ideological exclusivity, which was a rarity in 1990.
Linguistic and cultural essays on transmediality
Words are like people: they are born, grow, travel, cross the borders of municipalities, provinces and states, adapt, change nationality and citizenship, reproduce, age and die, and – unlike people, similar to gods – they can also be resurrected.
A direct, enjoyable and humorous read, and all of this is primarily thanks to the magic of storytelling - Nives Opačić tells a thousand and one stories about every word.