The master's thesis aims to develop a Slovene-specific model for a critical stylistic analysis of language. The analytical corpus consists of a selection of Ivan Cankar's political essays titled Kako sem postal socialist in drugi spisi (How I Became a Socialist and Other Essays), published in 2018. Critical stylistics, which emerged following developments in critical linguistics, has been thus far chiefly elaborated in other linguistic, primarily English-speaking environments. The latter forms the basis of the framework that this research draws from and adapts accordingly. Although a pilot study had already been conducted on this subject and presented at the 2018 Cankar i(n) mi (Cankar and Us) student conference in Belgrade, it is necessary to adapt the critical stylistics framework to the specificities of Slovene. This research strives to enhance and develop an analytical framework that could provide the basis for the potential future scholarship of various genres. The analysis provides a comprehensive insight into Ivan Cankar's works from the perspective of critical stylistics, examining his distinctive style in conjunction with the ideologies encoded within the text, thus contributing to a broader understanding of one of the most important Slovenian writers. Since there is no established model for analysing language through critical stylistics in the Slovene linguistic space, it is expected that this research will establish a theoretical and methodological framework that is consistent with the specificities of the Slovene language and applicable to a variety of text types. In addition, this thesis aims to emphasize the significance of understanding texts, their stylistic characteristics and underlying ideologies.
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