THE AORIST AND THE IMPERFECT IN THE JOURNALISTIC STYLE OF THE CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGE Cover Image

DISTRIBUCIJA AORISTA I IMPERFEKTA U NOVINARSKOM STILU SAVREMENOG JEZIKA
THE AORIST AND THE IMPERFECT IN THE JOURNALISTIC STYLE OF THE CONTEMPORARY LANGUAGE

Author(s): Aida Kršo
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: aorist; imperfect; contemporary language; journalistic style; verbs

Summary/Abstract: The absence of the imperfect and the aorist in the journalistic style is justified. The informative substyle is full of journalistic expressions, without the author’s personality, with short journalistic reports, aiming at providing some information. There is no place for the verbal forms expressing experienced actions in these texts, such as the aorist and the imperfect. The texts in the above mentioned style tend to be short, current, objective, informative. Exceptionally, if there is a conscious detachment from the main – informative function, and it changes to another function, the agitation – propagandist one, which is characteristic for the political comments and analyses.

  • Issue Year: 25/2014
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 153-163
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Bosnian