Abouth language gravestones Kragujevac and Batočina (ethnolinguistic description) Cover Image

О ЈЕЗИКУ НАДГРОБНИХ СПОМЕНИКА КРАГУЈЕВЦА И БАТОЧИНЕ (ЕТНОЛИНГВИСТИЧКИ ОПИС)
Abouth language gravestones Kragujevac and Batočina (ethnolinguistic description)

Author(s): Bojana M. Gerun
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Descriptive linguistics
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: death;tradition; beliefs; soul and body; ritual; folklore; gravestone communication; language; epitaph as a symbol; language of absence

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the research in this work will be ethnolinguistic description of the language used on gravestones. The material on which the research is conducted includes two cemeteries in Kragujevac (Town cemetery and Bozman) as well as the cemetery in Batocina. The goal of the work, besides the linguistic description, is to explain the need for epitaphs, along with their function and role in a society. The beginning of the work presents the topic and its realization in language in general. Leitmotif of death is unavoidable when talking about the necropolic idioma, so there will be a word about understanding of death in literature too, as a possibility of comparison with gravestone epitaphs. The methods which were used during this research will be also presented in its primary part, as well as the importance of the topic itself and with the anthropological perspective for evaluating and understanding of the language on the gravestone postaments.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2015
  • Issue No: 56
  • Page Range: 171-182
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Serbian
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