Microstylistics of the Umjetnost riječi journal: linguistic elaboration on the concept of stylem

Abstract

The goal of this research of linguo-stylistic contributions to the Umjetnost riječi journal is the attempt to determine a methodology of descriptive actions in the analysis of stylistically relevant language facts of a literary-artistic work, which was applied to the works of some members of the so-called Zagreb school of stylistics during the 1960s. Analyzing a literary text using linguistic apparatus is seen in co-relation with the heterogeneously (macrostylistically) understood stylistic category within that school, with special attention given to the question of the representative quality of a literary-artistic text as a model for the linguistic analysis built on the criteria of style as a choice and a deviation. With this analysis we try to contribute to the systematization of the duality of the stylistic discipline and encourage that, in the context of contemporary multitude of stylistic approaches, nonsys tematized terms and individual concepts of style, a stylistic contribution of structural linguistics is determined more clearly, and that those achievements that offerstimulating ideas are pointed out in recent studies of the language of a literary-artistic work.