Stilska obilježenost indikativnog prezenta u epskom dijalogu
Stylistic Mark of the Present Indicative in the Epic Dialogue

Summary/Abstract: This work analyses the semantic and stylistic values of the simple present as used in dialogue of the epic folk decasyllabic poems which were handed down to Vuk Karadzic by the most prominent folk epic poets in Montenegro – Starac Milija and Tesan Podrugovic. Although the Present tense in its literal meaning and its purpose is a stylistically neutral, using selected examples the author points out that its performance of "automatism of perception" may be more contextually conditioned (e.g. participation in its imagery, phraseologisms, directives and commissives or when involved in building an impression of credibility of events described in the poems).

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