Original scientific paper
Syntactic style intensifiers in the Croatian jeans-prose novels
Ivona Baković
; University of Mostar, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The paper analyzes syntactic style intensifiers in three Croatian jeans-prose novels: Kratki izlet by Antun Soljan, Kuzis, stari moj by Zvonimir Majdak and Bolja polovica hrabrosti by Ivan Slamnig. It covers phenomena and procedures at the syntactic level (decomposed predicate, ellipsis, reticention, nominative sentences, parceling, inversion, repetitions and epithets) in which we find discrepancies from the usual sentence structure. Since jeans-prose is concerned with stylization of spoken language, procedures such as ellipsis and reticention are used to make impression of spontaneity and unpreparedness, while repetitions can reveal emotional state of protagonists besides contributing to easiness and relaxation.
Keywords
jeans prose; expressive syntax; syntactic style intensifier; figures of speech; sentence
Hrčak ID:
238756
URI
Publication date:
5.12.2019.
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