Verbs of Speaking in Author's Remarks and Direct Speech Cover Image

Глаголи говорења у ауторским ремаркама и управни говор
Verbs of Speaking in Author's Remarks and Direct Speech

Author(s): Remzija Hadžiefendić
Subject(s): South Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Institut za jezik
Keywords: speaking verb; direct speech; Serbo-Croatian language; semantic; someone else's words;

Summary/Abstract: In the paper a relation is being analyzed between the verbs of speaking (say, tell, answer, cry etc.) and the direct speech in a prose literary-artistic text in the Serbo-Croat. The starting point is their connecting role in bringing the text together — antecedentally-postcedentally: they indicate the direct speech (most frequently in the new paragraph), i. e. they »pull the text and advance it, but they also connect it with the previous one. Then, the two groups are singled out in relation to the semantics of these verbs: which characterize or state the direct speech which follows after them (cry, yell, rumble, or say, tell, answer).

  • Issue Year: 16/1987
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 172-180
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Croatian, Serbian