LEXICAL AND DISCOURSE FEATURES OF DEATH ADVERTISEMENTS.

This paper analyzes lexico-grammatical and discourse characteristics of a type of obituary - obituaries. The analysed material was published in two different regions the Serbian language is spoken: in Eastern Herzegovina and in the Province of Vojvodina (Novi Sad). It was taken from both printed editions of Dnevnik and online website E-smrtovnice. The lexico-grammatical analysis discusses the use of lexemes in the introductory phrase, the use of informative verbs, but also those that denote death, as well as the nouns that denote the farewell of a deceased person. We also observe the use of speech acts via discourse analysis aparatus, as well as the language functions of obituaries. In addition, the analysis shows their written structure when it comes to deceased women and how women are actually (nominally) identified in them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]