Original scientific paper

IDIOMS IN INTERVIEWS AND THEIR PRAGMATIC AND SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS

Leonard Pon ; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Osijek
Ivana Jozić ; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Osijek
Alisa Rakovac ; Srednja muzička škola u Tuzli

Abstract

This paper deals with idioms in interviews, focusing on their pragmatic and semantic
characteristics. The corpus was collected from weekly magazines published in Croatia and
Bosnia and Herzegovina. The analysis of the corpus was based on the definition of idioms in
the narrow sense, and we took a closer look at their functions and semantic characteristics in
the text, as well as at the modifications of their original forms. This paper also deals with the
text type interview in more detail as an extremely interesting combination of written and
spoken language.

Keywords

idioms; interview; pragmatics; semantics

Hrčak ID:

30852

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/30852

Publication date:

15.12.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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