Semantic-stylistic Value of the Lexical System of Verbs and Adjectives in the Travelogue Genre Cover Image

Semantičko-stilske vrijednosti leksičkog sistema glagola i pridjeva u putopisnom žanru
Semantic-stylistic Value of the Lexical System of Verbs and Adjectives in the Travelogue Genre

Author(s): Bernisa Puriš
Subject(s): Lexis, Semantics, Theory of Literature
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli
Keywords: travelogue; narration; description; figures of description; verbs; adjectives; expressives;

Summary/Abstract: This paper has explored the semantic and stylistic values of the lexical system of verbs and adjectives as holders of basic thematic content of narrative and descriptive sequences of the travel writing. It has been established that the narrative sequence is based on the semantic and stylistic diversity of the verbs of movement. Verbs related to memory, knowledge and remembrance make their semantic-stylistic value in the narrative figure of thought, analepsis, as retrospective digression. The semantic-stylistic function of the lexical system of adjectives essentially determines both the factually (facto) and the subjectively (emotionally-expressive) marked character of the thematic repertoire of the descriptive sequences of the travel genre.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 9-23
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Bosnian