CM: Communication and Media ISSN 2466-541X; 2466-5452 (Online)

POLITICAL DISCOURSE IN COMEDIES OF BRANISLAV NUŠIĆ

Lidija Mirkov — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 04:45:48 +0100

The comedic discourse is a very important hub where the elements of the political discourse are refracted, often in an ironic-satirical formulation. For our conditions, it is particularly important to examine the contextualization of political discourse in Branislav Nušić's comedies. There is hardly any of his work that does not represent aspects or a hidden view of political discourse. This imposes a broader interdisciplinary approach, among the first a structural approach, the interpretation of the represented macro and microstructures of comedy in which a narrative diversionary action is performed through political discourse. Hence, the conditional stylistic-rhetorical, intertextual and linguistic approach should be supplemented with elements of discourse analysis. This will enable an insight into the structural design of the comedy. Parts of microstructures from other contexts (social, political, ideological, literary, everyday) often have multiple parallel roles. One is the delineation and criticism of social reality, the other is the shaping of the fictitious world of comedy with important literary premises. Changing the context of certain microstructures conditions different behavior and interpretation, as well as significant humorous motivation.

„KOSOVO“ BY BRANISLAV NUŠIĆ, LAND OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: FROM DEMOGRAPHIC-ETNOGRAPHIC PICTURE TO NATIONAL-IDEOLOGICAL (RE)INTERPRETATION OF TRADITION

Lidija Mirkov — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 06:14:04 +0100

The paper aims to show what Nušić’s intentions were in writing this unusual documentary demographic-ethnographic book about Kosovo and Metohija. At the centre of this cultural and folkloric-rhetorical interpretation is the legend about the (first) Battle of Kosovo, as well as the ways explored by the author to select and represent particular motifs from the legend of the Battle of Kosovo. The analysis shows that the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, in Nušić’s opinion, is not only the territory that covers the historical core of the feudal Serbian country (Old Serbia), or the geographical zone located on the periphery of the crumbling Ottoman Empire during the last decade of the 19th century, which records the increasing migratory movements of the Serbian population towards the Kingdom of Serbia. It is not only the spiritual and physical homeland of our ancestors, nor is it simply an area of the centuries-old Serbian cultural heritage. It is all of this at the same time. In this context, to the author, the Kosovo legacy, Lazar’s sacrifice, Miloš’ feat, for example, represent the embodiments of the Christian archetype of the martyr and an exemplary model of heroism, valued by the price of life laid down for the freedom of one’s own people. The folklore narrative, supported by material evidence and based on the rhetorical strategy of credibility, joined and connected through the legend about the Battle of Kosovo, to Branislav Nušić, becomes the national and identity-defining category.

Characteristics and manners of corruptive acts described in feuilletons, records and short stories by Branislav Nušić

Milica Jokovic Pantelic — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:16:39 +0100

Branislav Nušić – whose descriptions of corruption and corruptive conduct of individuals and authorities of his time are presented and analyzed in this paper – humorously and accurately depicted situations, manners and character of the participants in corruptive acts. His observations reveal causes, reasons and motives of why people become involved in corruptive activities. Greed and gaining a social status, position and reputation at all costs reflect important character traits of the people resorting to corruption. Nušić particularly describes the use of the joint budget by people in power, bribing for positions in the hierarchy of power and of voters during the election process for members of parliament, the role of nepotism in gaining privileges, promotion and advancement in civil service and the profit provided by such status. Different events involving characters inclined towards corruption are described by Nušić through comic, tragic and farcical plots. The paper is aimed to use Nušić’ s insight into his era to show how corruption as a phenomenon is dangerous when it involves individuals and society, and how difficult it is to stop or eradicate corruption to the extent that it cannot threaten social life. Nušić’s descriptions of corruptive situations are still present in similar forms today. Nušić’s message is that Serbia’s political life is inundated in corruption. By their repetition over time, corruptive cases lead to the formation of corruptive patterns accompanying Serbia’s political life to date.

THE RHETORICAL PROCEEDINGS OF JOVANA JOKSIMOVIĆ OBSERVED THROUGH THE ELEMENTS OF NUŠIĆ'S "RHETORIC" DURING THE PRESENTATION OF THE MORNING PROGRAM ON COMMERCIAL TELEVISION CHANNELS

Nikola Perišić, Maja Ficovic — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:30:44 +0100

Jovana Joksimović is a journalist and presenter who has devoted most of her career to hosting the same format of shows, which is the morning program, and she has been working on this type of television format for almost 20 years. It is for this reason that she can be considered one of the most experienced presenters in Serbia when it comes to this type of program and the host who has been continuously engaged in the form of morning programs in Serbia for the longest time. During her career, she worked on three different commercial television stations, namely: Pink, Prva and K1. It should be noted that on Pink and Prva she often hosted the program together with Srđan Predojević. Because of all the mentioned subject of the work is Jovana Joksimović and her rhetorical qualities when leading the morning program. The basic hypothesis from which the work is based is that regardless of the different commercial television channels on which she worked, Jovana Joksimović is prone to the same rhetorical actions, as well as that she often interrupts her interlocutors during the conversation she leads and interrupts them. Those hypotheses are confirmed because her rhetorical actions are not in accordance with what Nušić gives in his "Rhetoric" as a certain type of recommendation for desirable rhetorical behavior. More precisely, Jovana Joksimović's journalistic expression is dominated by an illogical and incongruous presence, which has the consequence that there is no proper order during the interviews she does in her television program.

Usage of adapted spelling of names from foreign modern languages in the Serbian daily press

Luka Totaj — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:17:01 +0100

In this paper, we will present the results of the content analysis that we used when examining the usage of transcription in the Serbian daily newspapers that publishing nationally, videlicet in the sections: “Politics”, “World” and “Sport”. The data was collected in the penultimate week of June 2021. Textual analysis and quantitative content analysis were used in the study. Our aim was to determine the frequency of transcription errors in the Serbian press. Anthroponyms from those languages whose transcription is explained in the Orthography Book of Serbian were our analytical unit. In this paper, we introduced a new communicative-linguistic term “transcriptional fallacy” which was also a segment in the analysis. The obtained results tell us that the frequency of transcription errors is on a medium level, which leans more towards a bad than a good grade. Transcription errors are most often made due to an uncritical imitation of the original language’s script, although the other two fallacies are also frequent.

Youth’s participation in the media and an analysis of the flow of information about them from one media platform to another

Biljana Vitković — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 02:49:04 +0100

Active youth involvement in a community's daily life is the precondition for its development. The media are an important tool in securing that active involvement. An analysis of the younger generation’s presence across platforms further serves to gain a deeper understanding of the societal capacity for critical thinking and the level of general affinity to change.

By conducting a one month long study of five informative TV programs, six daily newspapers (in printed form), two youth portals and the RTS (national public broadcaster) program listings, this paper aims to gain insight into the overall presence of young people in those media, and the topics which occupy them. Furthermore, the study aims to gain an understanding about the impact of a split representation of reality imposed by the selected media to the youth.

Noticing the information overflowing from one media platform to another is of great importance, as it has an impact on the youth and their activism efforts, thus bearing a significant role in the studies conducted by the media and communication theory experts.

Young people are making appearances in television broadcasting programs, having shows dedicated to them by the National public broadcaster (RTS) and are also publishing news on their active platform portals. Messages are being circulated, but there haven’t been any detailed, large-scale studies which can offer an answer to the question: what is the content of these messages, and if they circulate across the communicational space?

The key contribution that this study aims to achieve is an attempt to answer these questions.

The findings of this paper suggest that the communicational space of the youth towards the public is narrow, without any active communication channels, nor is there any information overflowing cross means of communication. The findings further indicate that the complexity and the solemnity of the content has shown to depend on the media which have created the content.

Knowledge gained in this paper will serve as a starting point for further theoretical discussions, and a greater scope of media platforms selected to be included in future studies could lay the foundation for a work style reform of said media platforms.

"Different Nušić" by Raško V. Jovanović, book review

Arijana Handan — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 03:12:19 +0200

BRANISLAV NUŠIĆ’S COLUMNS AS A FORERUNNER OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN SERBIAN JOURNALISM

Sanja Domazet — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:15:20 +0100

Summary: This paper analyzes the specific features of Branislav Nušić's individual style, which are manifested in the discourse of "feljtons" (today we define those texts as columns), published in the daily newspaper "Politika", in the period from 1904 to 1907. The paper will use the methods of text analysis, as well as the literary and artistic style of writing, which will accentuate the special stylistic features of Nušić's newspaper texts, which are the forerunners of the contemporary Serbian column and literary journalism. The individual characteristics of Branislav Nušić's writing style (at the time of the creation and publication of the column, he signed himself as Ben Akiba), include the incorporation of the language and speech forms of the time into the columnist discourse, the use of literary and artistic style of writing, which indicates that Nušić's texts from "Politics" are the basis on which contemporary writers write columnists, and his functionalist style (where irony and sarcasm alternate, gradation, repetition of sentences, syntactic parallelism, and all in the spirit of creating a comic effect), made it possible for his newspaper texts, which abound in familiarisms, expressive tone, emotional expression, allegorical, with heteroglossicity, affectation and dramaturgical composition, they gained wide readership and public attention. The paper will show that Nušić's texts are linguistically and stylistically vital, thematically contemporary, with a convincing presentation, but also with satire and the ever-present metaphysical pessimism, where the eternal theme of power, kinship hypocrisy and double morality are mocked, distinctly modern and with the anticipatory ability of their author. Even though more than a century has passed since they were created, Nušić's columns are fabula nostra even today, exciting and topical in terms of theme, language and style, so this work will show that Nušić can rightly be called not only a playwright, diplomat, amateur photographer and pioneer rhetoric in us, but also a first-class journalist.