Tags: Croatia

Twenty students from the University of Georgia spent three weeks exploring Croatia and Venice this last Maymester. Led by Profs. Jordan Pickett and Cari Goetcheus, students from a wide range of majors—biology, engineering, business, history and pre-law, as well as the professors’ home departments of Classics and historic preservation— traveled from Zagreb to the Adriatic. Working their way up the Adriatic coast, from Split to Zadar and Pula,…

Awareness about languages, the differences in how individuals speak, and how these create local identities may come as no great surprise to American Southerners. When speakers of certain linguistic varieties decline, though, their languages become endangered. Keith Langston’s scholarship addresses questions of linguistic structure and the relationship of language and identity, with a focus on the country of Croatia. “We always have this idea…