This study wants to bring about awareness of the use of dialectism as a special function in the prose of Florjan Lipuš. The analysis includes the novel Prošnji dan (1987), which reflects the function of dialectisms, selected in view of the presence and the absence of the mytic time. Dialectisms perform a particular temporal role, as they draw the limit between the violently removed mytic time and the time of the metaphysical idea present. The analysis includes the dialectisms that
define the place of the action, present the destruction of nature and express in words the tragical aspect of the cataclysn as a consequence of the ruined harmony between the man and the cosmos. In addition, attention is paid also to the reshaping of dialectisms into an idiolect.
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