Original scientific paper

Spoken features of Tanja Torbarina's language

Artur Bagdasarov ; Rusko državno socijalno sveučilište, Moskva, Rusija

Abstract

This paper analyses the language features of a famous journalist Tanja Torbarina. The data was collected from her weekly articles in Globus 2001-2010, 2012-2014. In line with some tendencies found in other languages, i.e. Italian or Czech, her writing regularly includes language features typically found in conversational spoken idioms, including different dialect groups. It could be said that the style of Tanja Torbarina, an influencial journalist with a highly recognizable way of writing, is a mixture of standard and spoken Croatian, a so called hybrid style. In her writing she uses contemporary spoken forms as well as some older words and word forms. The reasons for such usage seems to vary: sometimes spoken or non-standard words are used to characterize the people or phenomena she writes about and produce very effective language play. Sometimes the author wants to identify with speakers in a more relaxed register, for no other reason, or to express her attitudes towards the government or various politicians. Sometimes she uses older forms as the newer ones are not entirely accepted or widespread among speakers in daily conversation. However, sometimes she uses them with no obvious reason, disregarding written norms for the sake of it.

Keywords

standard; spoken style; registers; journalistic style

Hrčak ID:

148299

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/148299

Publication date:

1.10.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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