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THE CABIN-BOY – LINGUOSTYLISTIC INTERPRETATION OF AN ENTRY BY A 19th CENTURY’S UNKNOWN REFERRING TO THE CABIN-BOY’S LIFE ON SAILING-SHIPS

Joško Božanić ; Faculty of philosophy in Split


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Abstract

The author interprets the text that was registered by the end of the 19th century by an anonymous seafarer from Dubrovnik. The text is interesting for its authentic dialectal entry of the last century’s Dubrovnik idiom, both as an ethnological document referring to the life on sailing-ships and as a literary text of high stylistic value. Applying the linguostylistic parsing of this text he recognized the structure of the verbal expression realized in the written word medium. This analysis reveals the typical stylistic tretments characteristic for a highly developed culture of oral communication. At first, the author considers in detail the problem of the stylistic analysis of the former texts relying upon the relevant Croatian and foreign literature referring to this problem. Next, he discusses the characteristics of the verbal expression, oral poetry, the treatment of deautomatizing the idiomatic expression, figurative speech, of the experienced speech, the reiteration effect, the stylistic value of applying the imperative, the stylistic value of using the verbal speech (verbum dicendi), etc.
The author takes upon himself a thorough lexicographic research work accompanying the analyzed text with a comprehensive explanation of a number of archaic expressions. He ends it with the glossary of the words that are expained in their context.

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Hrčak ID:

111328

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/111328

Publication date:

23.5.2000.

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