No. XXXIX (2008)
Articles

Expressing Time in the Autobiographical Discourse of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Kosovo and Metohija

PDF
  • Svetlana Ćirković
Svetlana Ćirković
Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC0839199C

Published 01.12.2008

Keywords

  • anthropological linguistics,
  • reconstruction,
  • expressing time,
  • autobiographical discourse,
  • time marker,
  • time localizer,
  • Vantage Theory,
  • male and female time,
  • Kosovo and Metohija,
  • displaced Serbs
    • ...More
    Less

How to Cite

Ćirković, S. (2008). Expressing Time in the Autobiographical Discourse of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Kosovo and Metohija. Balcanica - Annual of the Institute for Balkan Studies, (XXXIX), 199–220. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC0839199C

Copyright (c) 2008 Balcanica

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Abstract

The oral corpus of recorded conversations with displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija was formed in 2003. The transcript of a three-hour conversation with a female interlocutor originally from the environs of Suva Reka (Metohija) has been subjected to discourse analysis, an oft-used technique within linguistic anthropology. The focus of the contribution is on the interlocutor’s ways of expressing time. Her autobiographical discourse, as well as that of displaced persons from Kosovo and Metohija in general, shows that the war/bombing/displacement functions as a temporal divide, as a time marker in relation to which the past, present and future are expressed. The results of this pilot study into time expressions may be used as the starting point in studying the entire oral corpus.
PDF

Metrics

Metrics Loading ...