Structural and semantic analysis of idioms in journalistic and publicist writing style

Glavni cilj ovog diplomskog rada bio je analizirati frazeme koji se pojavljuju u novinarsko publicističkom stilu iz dvije perspektive: strukturne i semantičke. Strukturna analiza frazema pretpostavlja analizu opsega, leksičkog sastava i sintaktički glavne sastavnice frazema. Pri odreĎivanju opsega frazema u hrvatskoj je frazeologiji od njezinih začetaka prisutna podjela na frazeme fonetske riječi, frazeme skupove riječi i frazeme rečenice te je u skladu s tom podjelom pisan i ovaj rad. Za razliku od strukturne, semantička analiza se bavi frazeološkim značenjem – načinom njegova formiranja i izražavanja odnosno odreĎivanjem stupnja desemantizacije, podrijetlom frazema, motiviranošću. Budući da je ovaj rad istraživački, korištena je sociološka metoda analize sadržaja. Navedenom metodom obuhvaćeno je 200 frazema koji su razvrstani u tablicama i grafovima s obzirom na strukturne i semantičke značajke. Na kraju rada nalazi se rječnik frazema koji su obuhvaćeni istraživanjem, a poredani su abecednim redom. Uz svaki frazem navedeno je i značenje koje je preuzeto iz Hrvatskog frazeološkog rječnika.The main goal of this thesis was the analysis of idioms, which occur in journalistic and publicist writing style from the two standpoints: structural and semantic. Structural idioms' analysis assumes an extent analysis, lexical structureand syntactically main components of idioms. While defining the extent of idioms, the classification on the phonetic words idioms, set of words idioms and the phrases idioms has been present since its beginnings in Croatian phraseology. The thesis is written according to already mentioned classification. Unlike the structural, the semantic analysis is occupied with the phrasal meaning – its form and expression, apropos determining of degree of desemantisation idiom origins and motivation. Whereas this thesis is the research work, sociological method of content analysis has also been used. Two hundred idioms which are sorted in the tables and the graphs considering the structural and the semantic features have been included by this method. At the end of the thesis there is a dictionary of alphabetically sorted idioms, which are covered by the research. Each of the idioms is accompanied by its meaning taken from Croatian Phraseology Dictionary (Hrvatski frazeološki rječnik)