EXPRESSIVE AND STYLISTIC POTENTIAL OF IDIOMS (based on examples from the novel Fear Imam by Derviš Sušić) Cover Image

EKSPRESIVNO-STILSKI POTENCIJAL FRAZEMA (na primjerima iz romana Hodža Strah Derviša Sušića)
EXPRESSIVE AND STYLISTIC POTENTIAL OF IDIOMS (based on examples from the novel Fear Imam by Derviš Sušić)

Author(s): Edna Klimentić
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Institut za bosanski jezik i književnost u Tuzli
Keywords: conversational and literary idioms; expressiveness; emotionality; desemantization; metaphors; metonymy; comparisons

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with expressive and stylistic features of idioms based on examples from the novel Fear Imam by Derviš Sušić. Through selected examples it is attempt to explain the terms of which the expressiveness depends on and to determine which idioms are more expressive. In addition to that issue the values of the conversational and literary idioms will be compared.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: I/1
  • Page Range: 69-80
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Bosnian