Standard language and the language of a literature on a novel "Kurlani" by Mirko Božić

Polazeći od teze da je jezik književnga djela autonoman, artificijelan vid jezika, zaključujemo da se on u romanu Kurlani realizirao u tri samostalna ostvaraja. To su: ruralni kurlanski jezik (karakteriziraju ga selektivno unošene osobitosti dalmatinskih novoštokavskih ikavskih govora i književnoga jezika te slaba funkcionalna raslojenost), urbani jezik Sinjana (iste dijalektalne osnovice kao i ruralni, ali s bitno većim uplivom standarda te znatno veće funkcionalne raslojenosti) i pripovjedni diskurs romana (koji je blizak književnome jeziku onakvome kakav je bio u doba nastajanja romana s brojnim piščevim intervencijama na svim jezičnim razinama). Sve te tri jezične razine zajedno čine autorski jezik M. Božića u ovome romanu. Svaka je od njih u sprezi sa svijetom koji stvara. (Jezik je u književnome djelu svjetotvoran, kao što je njegov svijet jezikotvoran.) Svijet je romana Kurlani izgrađen jezikom i može se razumjeti i sagledati samo ako se razumije i sagleda njegov jezik. Kada bi njegov jezik bio imalo drugačiji, romani Kurlani ne bi bio to što jest.Starting from the hypothesis that the language of a literary work is an autonomous, artificial form of language, we can conclude that in novel Kurlani it has been realized in three autonomous realizations. These are: rural Kurlan speech (characterized by the selectively inserted specific qualities of Dalmatian new štokavian ikavian speech and the standard language and the weak functional stratification), the urbane speech of the inhabitants of Sinj (with the same dialectal base as the rural speech, but much more influenced by the standard language and with much greater functional stratification) and the narrative discourse of the novel (which is close to the standard language as it was at the time when the novel was written, but includes numerous interventions of the writer on all levels of the language). All three levels of the language together make the authorial language of M. Božić in this novel. Each of them is in a relationship with the world it creates. (Language in a literary work is world forming, just as its world is language-forming.) The world of the novel Kurlani is constructed by language and can be understood and perceived only if its language is understood and perceived. If its language would be even slightly different, the novel Kurlani would not be what it is