The image of the epidemic in older popular and journalistic texts

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2020-11-07Author
Ulčnik, Natalia
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University of Maribor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
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Prispevek na podlagi izbranih poljudnostrokovnih knjig in časopisnih člankov osvetljuje poročanje o epidemiji kolere v 19. stoletju in na začetku 20. stoletja. Vire analizira na ravni vsebinskih elementov in na jezikovno-slogovni ravni ter ob tem opozarja na vzporednice med starejšimi in sodobnimi besedili, vezanimi na epidemijo. Osredinja se na ekspresivnost izražanja in rabo retoričnih sredstev, npr. personifikacije (bolezen nas obišče, se priklati, se ne misli posloviti …) ter metaforike (bolezen kot tujka, morilka, pošast). Na leksikalni ravni izpostavlja izraze, ki v epidemičnih okoliščinah izkazujejo večjo frekventnost pojavljanja že v 19. stoletju, npr. epidemija, higiena, karantena, osamiti, razkužiti. Gre za leksiko, ki učinkovito nakazuje tematska izhodišča analiziranih besedil in obenem predstavlja okvir tedanje družbene realnosti.The article is based on select popular science books and newspaper articles and focuses on the reporting of the cholera epidemic in the 19th century and early 20th century. The analyses are performed on the level of the key contextual elements and on the linguistic-stylistic level. It draws attention to the parallels between older and contemporary texts which describe the epidemic. The analyses focus on expressiveness and the use of rhetorical devices, e.g. personifications (the disease visits us, it comes, does not mean to say goodbye…) and metaphors (illness as a stranger, murderer, monster). At the lexical level, the analysis points out the terms which in the time of epidemic often occur as early as in 19th century, e.g. epidemic, hygiene, quarantine, isolate, disinfect. These lexemes effectively indicate crucial themes in the analysed texts and at the same time reflect the social reality of the time.
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Ulčnik N. (2020). The image of the epidemic in older popular and journalistic texts. Slavia Centralis , 13 (2), 31–49. Retrieved from https://journals.um.si/index.php/slaviacentralis/article/view/963
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