JEVREM BRKOVIĆ I CRNOGORSKI JEZIK
JEVREM BRKOVIĆ AND THE MONTENEGRIN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the relationship between Jevrem Brković and the Montenegrin language from two aspects: the first, theoretical, is focused on the attitude of Jevrem Brković towards the Montenegrin language, its naming and standardization, and the second, practical aspect, referres to the language in Jevrem Brković's poetic, prose and journalistic works which were offered tous as a model of the Montenegrin language by him. Therefore, the author has been primarily focused on the views of the Montenegrin language and its codification and the realization of that language in a literary-artistic and journalistic functional style. The cultural specificity of each language is best manifested in its lexicon and phraseology, and for this reason, this paper analyzes onomastics (anthroponyms and toponyms) in Brković's novels, which are associated with and evoke the distant past of Duklja, as well as typical Montenegrin phraseology and words that could "unlock some of those dark coffins of Duklja that are languishingly repressed somewhere in our muffled memory of the past".

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