Stylistic and linguistic characteristics of the Memoirs by Milan Petrović
The paper highlights and describes the characteristic linguistic and stylistic features of Milan Petrović's memoirs. The aim of the paper is to single out and describe the basic linguistic and stylistic features of the language by applying grammatical and linguistic criteria and methods. Given...
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| description | The paper highlights and describes the characteristic linguistic and stylistic features of Milan Petrović's memoirs. The aim of the paper is to single out and describe the basic linguistic and stylistic features of the language by applying grammatical and linguistic criteria and methods. Given that it is a memoir, we tried to determine whether elements of a literary-artistic or scientific functional style prevail in the book. Eight memoir texts by this author are included in the analysis. The conducted analysis of Milan Petrović's style and language in his book suggests several important conclusions. His style is simple, the sentence is narrative, never structurally complicated, with a small number of clauses in its composition. It is an essayistic-scientific style, with many literary touches, with conscious literarization, carried out with the aim of achieving greater beauty of the language. In addition to all this, in the language of Milan Petrović we also find purely scientific linguistic features, such as decomposed predicates, the frequent use of adverbs, as well as the author's 'we', and many historical facts. As for the grammatical features, his language does not differ much from the modern Serbian language. Given that Milan Petrović lived and worked in the area of the Šumadija-Vojvodina dialect, which became the basis of the standard Serbian language, there are very few deviations from the norm in his language. On the other hand, the narration, as well as all the linguistic features underlying his memoirs, represent their most immanent characteristic. That is why we cannot view his memoirs exclusively as a scientific-historical text, but as a literary text, which also contains certain scientific elements. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-545ec96f53df4a5c9db12d09294ec5432023-08-14T09:57:15ZengFaculty of Philosophy, Kosovska MitrovicaZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini0354-32932217-80822023-01-0153247650354-32932302047IStylistic and linguistic characteristics of the Memoirs by Milan PetrovićIvanović Janko R.0SANU, Institut za srpski jezik, Beograd, SerbiaThe paper highlights and describes the characteristic linguistic and stylistic features of Milan Petrović's memoirs. The aim of the paper is to single out and describe the basic linguistic and stylistic features of the language by applying grammatical and linguistic criteria and methods. Given that it is a memoir, we tried to determine whether elements of a literary-artistic or scientific functional style prevail in the book. Eight memoir texts by this author are included in the analysis. The conducted analysis of Milan Petrović's style and language in his book suggests several important conclusions. His style is simple, the sentence is narrative, never structurally complicated, with a small number of clauses in its composition. It is an essayistic-scientific style, with many literary touches, with conscious literarization, carried out with the aim of achieving greater beauty of the language. In addition to all this, in the language of Milan Petrović we also find purely scientific linguistic features, such as decomposed predicates, the frequent use of adverbs, as well as the author's 'we', and many historical facts. As for the grammatical features, his language does not differ much from the modern Serbian language. Given that Milan Petrović lived and worked in the area of the Šumadija-Vojvodina dialect, which became the basis of the standard Serbian language, there are very few deviations from the norm in his language. On the other hand, the narration, as well as all the linguistic features underlying his memoirs, represent their most immanent characteristic. That is why we cannot view his memoirs exclusively as a scientific-historical text, but as a literary text, which also contains certain scientific elements.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0354-3293/2023/0354-32932302047I.pdfmilan petrovićmemoirslinguistic styleliterary stylescientific style |
| spellingShingle | Ivanović Janko R. Stylistic and linguistic characteristics of the Memoirs by Milan Petrović Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini milan petrović memoirs linguistic style literary style scientific style |
| title | Stylistic and linguistic characteristics of the Memoirs by Milan Petrović |
| title_full | Stylistic and linguistic characteristics of the Memoirs by Milan Petrović |
| title_fullStr | Stylistic and linguistic characteristics of the Memoirs by Milan Petrović |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stylistic and linguistic characteristics of the Memoirs by Milan Petrović |
| title_short | Stylistic and linguistic characteristics of the Memoirs by Milan Petrović |
| title_sort | stylistic and linguistic characteristics of the memoirs by milan petrovic |
| topic | milan petrović memoirs linguistic style literary style scientific style |
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