Oriental and Slavic lexicon in the language of oral lyrics in the Ludvik Kuba’s Collection from 1893 Cover Image

Orijentalna i slavenska leksika u jeziku usmene lirike u Zbirci Ludvika Kube iz 1893. godine
Oriental and Slavic lexicon in the language of oral lyrics in the Ludvik Kuba’s Collection from 1893

Author(s): Sedina Brkić-Međedović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Poetry, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Slavistički komitet BiH
Keywords: orientalism; Slavic and Balkan Pre-Slavenic lexical layer; oral lyric language; dialectism; localism; poetism;

Summary/Abstract: The songs and chants collection from Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter as the Collection) represents the most extensive and most significant collection of folk lyric songs, which was recorded on the ground of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1893 by the Czech musicologist Ludvik Kuba. Based on the lexical and semantic level, this collection is made distinctive by its Slavic-oriental lexical layer. That lexical layer is incorporated into the linguistic expression of the oral lyrics in the Ludvik Kuba’s collection, it strengthens it in a poetic, stylistic and aesthetic way, and thus becomes a kind of a linguistic manner. The paper discusses the use value of orientalisms in the language of the mentioned collection. Orientalisms are classified according to the method of linguistic affiliation types of folk lyric songs. The ways of functioning of the Oriental and Slavic lexicon, but also of the Balkan Pre-Slavenic one, are analyzed and possible conclusions are drawn.

  • Issue Year: II/2019
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 295-313
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian