Tišine i nesporazumi: o komunikaciji u situacijama životnih kriza u usmenoj lirici

Abstract

The paper discusses communicative situations of emotional crises and misunderstandings in oral lyric songs. The different semantic noise causes conflicts, spoken and unspoken, while both collective and individual aspects of oral lyric poetics are expressed. The motif of silence shows that one type of communication has different meanings in different contexts. Consequently, it can be a reflex of avoidance speech, but also a statement, an implicit contestation over social norms and one’s own position in the world. The paper analyses motifs of slander against a girl, fear of community condemnation, but of contestation over that condemnation as well, unfulfilled promises, misunderstandings between the lovers, the reflexes of emotional tensions and crisis. Those misunderstandings show asymmetric messages. Finally, it is shown how the magic of words and curses conceptualizes human relations, being collective and individual expression of emotional state in the moments of crisis.