JEZIČKE KARAKTERISTIKE KULENOVIĆEVE PRIPOVIJETKE STARAC I DIJETE
LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF KULENOVIĆ'S STORY THE OLD MAN AND THE CHILD

Summary/Abstract: Scholars of Skender Kulenović's literary work have long noticed the special importance that the writer places on language. It is not without reason that some of them have called him a "miner" or "wizard" of language. Although the linguistic beauty of Kulenović's expression was initially most often observed in poetry - sonnets and poems above all - his narrative work is no less interesting from a linguistic aspect. This paper will discuss the linguistic characteristics of the story The Old Man and the Child, which belongs to the post-war period of Kulenović's literary work. A poignant and emotional theme had to be told in a special and condensed linguistic expression that reflects not only the ambience of the place and time of the story, but also the complex psychology of the characters, in the presentation of which speech characterization plays an unusually significant role. In this story, linguistic expression spreads in several directions, which proves that literature is primarily a linguistic art, and Kulenović is a writer who knows not only the basic tone, but also the numerous nuances of our language.

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