Prolegomena za vernakularnu stilistiku
Introduction to veracular stylistics

Summary/Abstract: In Croatian research on stylography, vernacular stylistics has a minor status. The majority of Croatian citizens are native dialect speakers of the Chakavian, Kaikavian and Shtokavian vernacular idioms. The three largest Croatian cities are centers of the Kaikavian (Zagreb) and Chakavian (Split and Rijeka) idioms. In spite of these facts, and the enormous recent poetic production in Chakavian and Kaikavian idioms, vernacular stylistics in Croatia is almost non-existent. This article is a discussion of the role and significance of vernacular stylistics in Croatian dialectology, which neglects the stylistic level of expression, and in Croatian stylistics, which neglects vernacular texts. The author especially focuses on the relationship between the Croatian standard idiom and the organic idioms of Shtokavian, Chakavian and Kaikavian texts and well as those texts whose stylistic level is conditioned by the diachronic shift. The author opens the discussion with a discussion of reception theory in order to analyze various positions of the message recipient which are conditioned by the division of the idiom on the synchronic and diachronic axes. The article analyzes the stylistics of speech and colloquial texts, the stylistics of texts from the diachronic perspective and the stylistics of organic idioms. The paper problematizes the question of the status of Chakavian and Kaikavian idioms as dialects/ vernacular in relation to the Croatian standard language. This paper also thematizes questions regarding the relationship between artistic and poetic production in organic idioms: the question of the relationship between cliché-ridden poetisms and a creative intensification of the dialectic speech and the question of the regionalization of dialectic literary production with regard to the representative national literary production. Finally, the author interprets a few brief texts in Chakavian, Kaikavian and Shtokavian idioms in order to demonstrate the interpretation models of vernacular stylistics.

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