Syntactic style intensifiers in the Croatian jeans-prose novels

Syntactic style intensifiers in the Croatian jeans-prose novels

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The paper analyzes syntactic style intensifiers in three Croatian jeans-prose novels: Kratki izlet by Antun Soljan, Kuzis, stari moj by Zvonimir Majdak and Bolja polovica hrabrosti by Ivan Slamnig.It covers phenomena and procedures at the syntactic level (decomposed predicate, ellipsis, reticention, nominative Food Processor sentences, parceling, inversion, repetitions and epithets) in which we find discrepancies from the usual sentence structure.Since ACN jeans-prose is concerned with stylization of spoken language, procedures such as ellipsis and reticention are used to make impression of spontaneity and unpreparedness, while repetitions can reveal emotional state of protagonists besides contributing to easiness and relaxation.