EPSKA FORMULA KAO INSTRUMENT ČUVANJA ORIJENTALIZAMA U BOSANSKOME JEZIKU
EPIC FORMULA AS AN INSTRUMENT THAT PRESERVES ORIENTALISMS IN BOSNIAN LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: The main hypothesis of this work is an epic formula – as an instrument used for studying, integrating and transferring traditional oral structures, in order to transfer language structures which are part of the epic formula – at the same time it is an instrument that preserves orientalisms, as typical part of the Bosnian language. In order to understand this hypothesis it is important to stress out that on the South-Slavic area orientalisms are firstly seen by the arrival of Ottomans, at the same time when Bosnian oral poetry started to develop. Epic formula as the basis for the epic poetry, provided the structure of epic formula that was comprised with oriental lexical units, which were, by the definition of epic formula, repeated and transferred from one generation to the next generation – preserved widely until today.

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