TYPES OF CHIASTIC STRUCTURES IN THE STANDARD SERBIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The paper analyses the types of chiastic structures in all functional styles of the standard Serbian language, with special emphasis on literary functional style which has yielded the greatest number of examples. Linguo-stylistic analysis includes the language structure and functional values of the chiastic structures in which two or more elements are related to each other through a reversal of structures, so that, metaphorically speaking, they display „the reflection of the first structure in the mirror”. Furthermore, the paper tends to show how author’s writing style can be improved and made more expressive by using such stylistic devices (in a rhetorical sense of the word).