CROATIANS IN
CANADA
Croatians in Canada:
Bilingual Practices and a
Sociolinguistic Profile of the
Community
Dr. Ivana Petrovic, Croatian Lecturer,
University of Waterloo
Dr. Ivana Petrovic
February 3, 2015
This talk will present a sociolinguistic
profile of the Croatian community in the
Greater Toronto Area as well as an
overview of bilingual practices used by
1st and 2nd generation members of the
community. Special focus will be given
to code-switching and patterns of intraand inter-generational communication.
2:00 p.m. in Modern Languages, Room 245