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VOKATIV U KNJIŽEVNOUMJETNIČKOM TEKSTU
VOCATIVE IN LITERARY TEXT

Author(s): Remzija Hadžiefendić-Parić
Subject(s): Bosnian Literature, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: vocative; addressing; reported word; direct speech; conative function; phatic function; addressee identifiation;

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with syntactic status of vocative (as well as vocative constructions). The analysis of vocative is approached from the communication aspect, accepting the view that the ‘addressing’ is outside (grammatical) analysis of the sentence and as such it cannot be ‘judged’ by grammatical (syntactic) categories. In the paper, we also try to interpret the connections between addressing (direct speech or ‘reported speech’) and other parts of structures using direct speech (writer’s speech) in the literary context (selected stories and a drama by S. Kulenović and a novel by M. Selimović). Syntactic analysis is followed by stylistic one.

  • Issue Year: 1/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 89-107
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bosnian