The interpretation of vocative linguistic features in contemporary textbooks and school grammar book of the croatian language

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the interpretation of vocatives and cat[1]egory of vocativeness within the school subject Croatian language regarding phonetic, phonological morphological, syntactic, orthographic and pragmat[1]ic-semantic vocative features on the corpus of contemporary Croatian lan[1]guage textbooks for primary and secondary education selected according to the final result of the selection of textbooks from the “Catalog of approved textbooks for the 2020/2021 school year” for primary and secondary schools, and four contemporary school grammar books of the Croatian language by Silić & Pranjković (2007), Težak & Babić (2016), Ham (2017), and Hudeček & Mihaljević (2019). The study results show the presence of the vocative as a case with the emphasis on its morphological features and syntactic autonomy, and the communicative vocative functions have been almost completely neglected.