Socio-Political Happenings – Source of New Phrasal Idioms in Contemporary Colloquial Bosnian Language Cover Image

Društveno-politička stvarnost – izvorište novih kolokvijalnih frazema u bosanskome jeziku
Socio-Political Happenings – Source of New Phrasal Idioms in Contemporary Colloquial Bosnian Language

Author(s): Amela Šehović
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: društveno-politička stvarnost; kolokvijalne frazeme; poredbene frazeme; razgovorni jezik; sakralni registar; zamjena postojećih leksema novim; uvođenje novih pojmova

Summary/Abstract: This paper shows that recent socio-political happenings and their results in Bosnia and Herzegovina influence contemporary colloquial language – by creating new phrasal idioms related to them. Two semantic figures, i. e. comparison and metaphor, are very frequent in use in researched idioms. Since new phrasal idioms enrich our language it is this fact in particular that justifies their place in Bosnian language dictionaries and their study in this article.

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 109-115
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Bosnian