Лингвостилистичке и наратолошке особености монолошких форми слободног неуправног говора у роману Сеоска учитељица Светолика Ранковића
Linguostylistic and Narratological Features of Monologue Forms of Free Indirect Speech in Svetolik Rankovic’s Novel Seoska Učiteljica

Summary/Abstract: In the paper, we investigated the use of monologue forms of free indirect speech (FIS) in the novel Seoska učiteljica, by Svetolik Rankovic. Firstly, we considered ’stylematic’ potential on the basis of linguistic and stylistic parameters, and then ’stylogenic’ function as well. After that, we started narratological analysis, having in mind that FIS often depends on the context and that linguistic criteria that are used are not sufficient in discernment of this technique. Literary criticism of FIS so far, expressed its opinion by assessing S. Rankovic’s skill. As far as the author is aware, this is the first work that pays more attention to the study of the use of FIS in S. Rankovic’s fiction. The paper highlights the pioneering attempts of this writer at building interior monologue technique of FIS. The most frequent linguistic-stylistic markers that allow identification of this narrative process, are most certainly the ones on linguostylistic plan. FIS can be recognized on the basis of the type of verb verba dicendi / sentiendi, provided that it is not part of FIS, but that it is a contextual realization: namely, verbs of this type often appear in sentences that precede FIS, or follow it, and those are narrative sentences. Amongst the elements that separate FIS from narratological context we can certainly count in the following units as the most prominent : the established verbal formula from everyday speech, affective vocabulary (oh, baš, gle, jest), repetition and discontinuity of inherently conversational style, as well as the modal particles (dakle, sigurno), various forms of interrogative and exclamatory sentences, rhetorical questions, verb forms for experienced actions, as well as stylistic methods such as ellipses, parcellations, gradation and similar units with a cumulative function. The use of deictic units can be observed: instead of distal forms of pronouns (such as demonstrative: taj), adverbs (tamo) and particles (eto) which characterize indirect speech in the novel remains proximal (ovaj, ovde, evo) and medial (onaj, onde, eno) forms of these words. Deictic references belong to the discursive level of the character, not the narrator. Finally, typography is shown as another factor: the use of three full stops (’...’) is one of grapho-stylematic features of FIS. Since there are examples that, apparently, grammatically do not differ from the copyright text, a wider context is necessary, and our analysis required determination of narratological factors. In cases of not realizing syntactic criteria, there was an interweaving of focalizations of the narrator and the character. While in linguistic terms there is a problem of assigning reference and deixis, in the stylistic plan places like this leave space to FIS to fulfill a large number of stylogenic functions. If observed from a conceptual and narratological aspect, FIS provided an insight into the psychological state of the characters, their thoughts, moods, dilemmas, voice characteristics, etc.., which brings life into the narrative, and in the reception plan allows for oneness with the emotional states of the characters. Thus, we come to the conclusion that FIS enabled the narrator to speak from the point of view of his heroes, while retaining his position as well, but also to go through different psychological states with them as well, while the reader is able to enter the consciousness of the characters. Since it is, characterized by high stylogenic functions, because of these features, FIS becomes very important process in novelistic rose of S. Rankovic.

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