This paper is based on the author’s years-long research on the experience of Vis archipelago fishermen, their ethics and mutual relationships in the extreme conditions of fishing at distant open sea ...islands of the Adriatic, where they were continously exposed to pirate attacks, open sea elements, with boats powered by wind or man, in small living quarters of a boat and fiercely competing with each
other. In such extreme conditions the only answer to the challenge of survival was mutual solidarity, willingness to help one another, the principle of egalitarianism and mutual respect. The author also speaks about the transethnic culture of people living at sea, the phenomenon of the sea as the liquid element which does not divide but rather connects different shores, cultures and languages. Finally, he speaks about the insular world whose most important social principle is work as
the basis of survival, sacrificing oneself for the sake of another and high value of each individual, who deserves to be held in esteem through his work and sacrifice
in spite of his selfish interests.
In the fishing village of Komiza, on the island of Vis, Croatia, there is a centuries-long ritual of incinerating traditional wooden fishing boats which is linked to the celebration of a Catholic ...holiday. Boats are not recognised as a part of the cultural heritage of Croatia and traditional boats are not being produced any longer because they are not seen to have any market value. Therefore, the continuation of the burning ritual is seriously threatened. It is argued here that through a re-contextualisation of the ceremony within an eco-museum and through similar projects, the boats could actively contribute to the economic life of the community. This issue is addressed from the standpoints of the endangered ritual and the cultural significance of the boat. While predominantly investigating its sociological importance and the underlying semiotic implications of the ritual, and discussing the anthropomorphic conceptualisation of the boat within the Komizan community, this article also explores the origins of the burning ritual and similar practices around the world. The article aims to increase the recognition of the boat as an object of tangible and intangible heritage, namely as a product of the traditional maritime art of ship-building.
The article presents stylistic interpretations of the poetry of two representative contemporary poets, one Croatian and the other Bosnian-Herzegovinian. The aim of the paper is to find the key to the ...stylistic interpretation that would enable discovering the fundamental characteristics of the author’s style and provide an insight into the deep structures of literature via analysis of literary language. Therefore, a linguistic stylistic analysis is performed, one that investigates the intensification of language on the levels of phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexis and semantics. A specific interpretative approach is taken in the stylistic interpretation of each chosen poem. The author has interpreted five poems by Danijel Dragojević so as to discover the essential value of his poetics. The interpretations have demonstrated shared stylistic features between the five selected poems, such as a narrative quality of the poetic discourse and scarcity of poetisms. The poetry of Mak Dizdar is represented with two poems from the poetry collection Kameni spavač: Zapis o štitu and Zapis o zemlji. The authors detects the archaic quality of Dizdar’s poetic discourse, inspired by the inscriptions on the medieval tombstones (stećci) pertaining to the Christian Bosnian Church.
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.
Osnovna jezična podloga diskursa Mujičićeve pjesme jest standardni hrvatski jezik. Njega već određuje sam naslov Tužbalica urbanog bića za jedan glas, a bez ikakvih jezičnih primjesa vernakularnih ...idioma napisana je i prva strofa.
This paper presents the research program Studia Mediterranea verified by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, and part of the Center for interdisciplinary study Studia Mediterranea ...(SMED Center) at the University of Split's Faculty of philosophy. SMED Center has 10 projects with 86 researchers and collaborators from 42 higher education institutions and public sectors in Croatia and abroad. Various research projects are mutually connected within the cultural and anthropological research program SM. The purpose of the SMED Center is not only to realize current projects, but to generate new ones too, and also to start a postgraduate study based on project results.
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