Kolokacijska i kritička stilska analiza pojmova u domeni dijelovi tijela u romanima gotike
Collocational and Critical Stylish Analysis of the Terms in the Domain of Body Parts in Gothic Novels

Summary/Abstract: The paper will analyze language structures of the terms that may be classified into the group of BODY PARTS in four novels of Gothic prose, putting the word as the basis for the analysis of a literary text without considering its artistic value. The aim of the research is to establish the frequency of these terms, to determine their collocability, to single out the metaphors with the domains of the terms from this group and to prove the connections between the linguistic form and the ideological meaning of the corpus of texts specific for the Gothic period. The nouns Arms, Ears, Eyes, Face, Foot, Hand, Head, Heart, Lips and Blood, that will be analyzed, are at the same time the most frequent ones in these novels, and as such they impose themselves with the number and ideological meaning, and are as such one of the proofs of the characteristics of the language of the researched corpus. The corpus of the research includes the singled-out Gothic novels: Dracula (STOKER, BRAM); Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS); Frankenstein (SHELLEY, MARY); Jane Eyre (BRONTË, CARLOTTE). The characteristics of the Gothic period are: fear, darkness, wrath, supernatural and death. The paper will try to prove that just the adjectives forming collocations with these nouns, such as the description of eyes or lips, are one of the ways to describe these conditions. The paper is based on earlier researches in the field of text analysis by the method of critical stylistic analysis that offers a set of analytical actions by means of which we can discover the ideologies hidden in the text. The metaphors will be analyzed at a semantic-cognitive level according to the theory of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. The advantage of critical stylistics is the fact that the frequency of the use of a certain term and its collocations, and the conceptual metaphors created by nouns, with the use of connected tools, make possible the identification of characteristics and ideology of the literary corpus being researched.

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