Semantic Groups of Orientalisms in Narrative Night in the Vizier Town of Skender Kulenovic

Abstract

The lexical level in the language is the level that offers the most abundant material for re- search. This paper deals with the analysis and presentation of semantic groups of orientalisms in Skender’s first short story „Night in the vizier town“ and their attributes, in context of aut- hor’s intention to represent cultural context and mentality of bosnian inhabitant. Orientalisms have remarkable stylistic potential in this short story and Kulenovic created an autentic verbal framework where he put the action and described character and events by using them. The paper primarily focused on the number of lexemas that have the symbols of spiritual and ma- terial culture, considering that the story shows events from the time of the Ottoman Empire, therefore this short story presents very good basis for our analysis.

Keywords

• Skender Kulenovic
• language contact
• lexicon
• orientalism
• semantic groups