Expressing Time in the Autobiographical Discourse of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Kosovo and Metohija
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.
Keywords:
anthropological linguistics / reconstruction / expressing time / autobiographical discourse / timer marker / time localizer / Vantage theory / male and female time / Kosovo and Metohija / displaced SerbsSource:
Balcanica, 2008, XXXIX, 199-220Publisher:
- Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Funding / projects:
- Ethnic and social stratification of the Balkans (RS-148011)
Collections
Institution/Community
Балканолошки институт САНУ / Institute for Balkan Studies SASATY - JOUR AU - Ćirković, Svetlana PY - 2008 UR - https://dais.sanu.ac.rs/123456789/4287 AB - 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. PB - Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts T2 - Balcanica T1 - Expressing Time in the Autobiographical Discourse of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Kosovo and Metohija SP - 199 EP - 220 IS - XXXIX DO - 10.2298/BALC0839199C UR - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_4287 ER -
@article{ author = "Ćirković, Svetlana", year = "2008", 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.", publisher = "Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts", journal = "Balcanica", title = "Expressing Time in the Autobiographical Discourse of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Kosovo and Metohija", pages = "199-220", number = "XXXIX", doi = "10.2298/BALC0839199C", url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_4287" }
Ćirković, S.. (2008). Expressing Time in the Autobiographical Discourse of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Kosovo and Metohija. in Balcanica Belgrade : Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.(XXXIX), 199-220. https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC0839199C https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_4287
Ćirković S. Expressing Time in the Autobiographical Discourse of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Kosovo and Metohija. in Balcanica. 2008;(XXXIX):199-220. doi:10.2298/BALC0839199C https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_4287 .
Ćirković, Svetlana, "Expressing Time in the Autobiographical Discourse of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) from Kosovo and Metohija" in Balcanica, no. XXXIX (2008):199-220, https://doi.org/10.2298/BALC0839199C ., https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_dais_4287 .