I Carry my Cross, I Pray to God ... : Ethnolinguistic Transcripts from Metohija with Introductory Notes

Етнолингвистички транскрипти начињени су на основу личних аудио-записа из 2003. године, насталих приликом прикупљања грађе за дијалектолошка и етнолингвистичка истраживања говора Срба из Метохије, смештених у колективне центре у Параћину. Поред биографских елемената, разговор обухвата и следеће теме: зимски празнични циклус, записи, митолошка бића, народна медицина, ношња итд.The ethnolinguistic transcripts presented in the paper were created on the basis of the audio-recordings made by the author in 2003, during the gathering of the material for the dialectological and ethnolinguistic research of the vernaculars of the Serbs from Metohija, housed in the collective refuge centres in Paracin. Besides biographic elements, the conversations include the following: the winter holidays’ cycle, Holy Tree, mythological beings, folk medicine, traditional clothes, etc. In the transcipts, almost all striking phonetic, morphological and morpho-syntactical features of the vernaculars of northern Metohija, which belong to the Kosovo-Resava dialectal complex, can be found. The transcripts enable the drawing of some particular conclusions which might be significant for ethnolinguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics as well as psycholinguistics