Original scientific paper
The Speech of the Island of Kaprije in Mediation Strategies
Gordana Čupković
orcid.org/0000-0001-8591-6357
; Odjel za kroatistiku Sveučilišta u Zadru
Abstract
The paper studies different forms of mediation of a South Čakavian idiom (the speech of the island of Kaprije) in literary works and in the media. On the one hand, the speech of the fictitious, literary characters of residents of the island of Kaprije (in one chapter of Brešan’s novel Gorgone and in Šoljan’s novel »The Good Man from Kaprije«) is studied, which are typified depending on the poetics of the writers, and on the other hand, the recorded speech of the real resident population in protest action is studied (»How the war started on my island«, 2023), which is realized as a faithful organic reproduction, but also in various modifications that arise due to the awareness of filming and/or in order to engage. Relevant genetic linguistics categories are studied at all applicable linguistic levels (phonology, accentuation, morphology, syntax, lexis) with regard to their frequency (from the most represented to the less represented) and in contrast with descriptions of organic idioms. The research shows in which language categories the external typification (performed by the creators and mediators of speech: writers and reportage authors) and the internal engagement (performed by native speakers) overlap and in which they differentiate.
Keywords
discourse analysis; Antun Šoljan; Ivo Brešan; South Čakavian dialect; literary character; stereotype
Hrčak ID:
330125
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Publication date:
25.2.2025.
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