THE WEATHER EXPERIENCE OF KOMIŽA’S FISHERMEN

U okviru istraživanja usmene predaje organske zajednice ribarskog naselja Komiža na srednjodalmatinskom otoku Visu, autor tokom cijele 1989. godine bilježi vremensku prognozu koju mu kazuje jedan komiški ribar, rođen 1917. godine. Ovaj zapis jest dokument ne samo jednog iznimno bogatog iskustva u promatranju i tumačenju meteorološkog vremena već isto tako bogata jezika u kojemu je to iskustvo sačuvano do danas. Ovaj zapis fiksira znanje i umijeće promatranja i tumačenja vremena koje je na ovim udaljenim srednjodalmatinskim otocima trajalo stoljećima, održavalo se usmenom predajom i stjecalo na otvorenom moru u stalnoj životnoj opasnosti. Po prvi put u povijesti prekida se nit usmene predaje kojom se to znanje i umijeće održavalo da bi pri kraju ovoga milenija potisnuto tehnikom bilo prepušteno zaboravu. Ovaj zapis dokument je i jednog iznimno bogata leksika i poetskog načina izrazavanja u opisu prirodnih pojava koje određuju život ribara na otvorenom moru. Autor uz izvorni tekst o vremenskoj prognozi, koji je raspoređen prema datumima kazivanja, daje vrlo iscrpan glosar s gramatičkom obradom natuknica , frazeologijom i nizom primjera iz usmenog teksta koji nijansiraju referencijalno i figurativno značenje riječi.In the framework of researches into the oral tradition of the organic community in the fishery settlement Komiza on the central-Dalmatian island of Vis all through 1989 the author was recording the weather forecasts which a Komiza fisherman, born in 1917, used to inform him about. This record is the very document not only of an exceptionally rich experience acquired in observing and explaining the meteorological weather but also of an abundant idiom this experience has preserved until today. This record fixes the knowledge and skill in observing and explaining the weather these distant central-Dalmatian island have been exposed to for eons, and it also fixes the oral tradition acquired at high seas at the peril of the fishermen\u27s lives . For the first time in history, by the end of this millenium, the thread of oral tradition has ben cut and suppressed by modern techniques and thus abandoned to oblivion. At the same time this document records an exceptionally rich lexicon and poetic expression when describing the natural phenomena predetermining the fishermen\u27s lives at the high seas. Along with the original text on the weather forecasts, distributed according to the dates of the received information, the author also gives a very detailed glossary with grammatical elaboration of the entries, phraseology, and a series of examples used in the oral text that nuance both the discursive and figurative meanings of the words