On the stylistic figures and contact synonyms in three hagiographic texts about St. Katherine, written in the Croatian vernacular in the XIV–XVII centuries Cover Image

За стилистичните фигури и контактните синоними в три житийни текста за св. Екатерина на народен хърватски език от XIV–XVII в.
On the stylistic figures and contact synonyms in three hagiographic texts about St. Katherine, written in the Croatian vernacular in the XIV–XVII centuries

Author(s): Simeon Stefanov
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Croatian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: contact synonyms; Croatian texts of vita of St. Katherine; medieval vita; baroque vitas; Croatian vernacular

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents stylistic figures and contact synonyms in three hagiographic texts about St. Katherine, written in Croatian vernacular. With contact synonyms every single example of the excerpted material is commented separately, by its own, with a view to its phonetic peculiarities, with which it participates in a rhythmic isosyllabic structure. On the ground of the excerpted material, the author tries to make general conclusions about regularities in the choice of lexis, which to be put in contact synonym phrase, for every single text.