Locutions and Interrogations as Expressive Means of Conversational Language in Literary Texts Cover Image

Las locuciones y las interrogaciones como recursos expresivos del lenguaje conversacional mediante textos literarios
Locutions and Interrogations as Expressive Means of Conversational Language in Literary Texts

Author(s): Alina Prelipcean
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: colloquial language; interrogations; fixed expressions; literary devices;

Summary/Abstract: Focusing on examples drawn from Spanish contemporary novels, this paper aims to highlight the importance of some expressive resources of colloquial speech used as literary devices. Idiomatic expressions represent one of the many types of phraseological units that, even when appear as isolated constructions under syntagmatic clusters, can be significantly self-sufficient, being able to render expressivity and color to colloquial language. On the other hand, we have interrogations, one of the most expressive means of sending a particular message within the literary texts when it comes to conversational language.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 113-118
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Spanish