Miro Kačić
Miro Kačić | |
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Born | 7 July 1946 Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
Died | February 6, 2001 , Croatia | (aged 54)
Occupation(s) | Writer, director |
Years active | 1961–2001 |
Miro Kačić (7 July 1946 – 6 February 2001) was a Croatian linguist.
After finishing primary school in Pučišća and
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics and a professor of general linguistics
.
His primary interests were theoretical and algebraic linguistics and topics related to Croatian studies, in which he gave sociolinguistic analysis of the influence of politics in the development of Slavic studies and pointed out the critical role of politically motivated linguistics in the creation and maintenance of Serbo-Croatian myth.
Works
- Hrvatski i srpski. Krivotvorine i zablude ("Croatian and Serbian. Falsifications and delusions", Zagreb, 1995; translated to German, English and French)
- Jezikoslovna promišljanja ("Linguistic considerations", Zagreb, 2001)
Sources
- Umro Miro Kačić (in Croatian)
- In memoriam: Miro Kačić (1946. - 2001.) (in Croatian)