SEMANTIČKE OPOZICIJE I SEMANTIČKE IZOTOPIJE U FORMIRANJU DISKURSA O “DOKUMENTU SAFER” ZA REFORMU OSNOVNOG I SREDNJEG OBRAZOVANJA U KANTONU SARAJEVO / SEMANTIC OPPOSITIONS AND SEMANTIC ISOTOPIES IN FORMING THE DISCOURSE ON THE “SAFER DOCUMENT” FOR PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION REFORM IN THE SARAJEVO CANTON

Abstract

As a socially relevant topic, education reform often garners the attention of experts and the general public, especially when actions of government bodies put it in the spotlight. There are several established media outlets and authors who regularly express their views on this topic, thus contributing to forming the public opinion that is of significant importance for the success of the reform process itself. This paper analyses the discourse formed around the publication of a document titled SAFER dealing with the reform of primary and secondary education in the Sarajevo Canton. A corpus of opinion pieces about the document was analysed for semantic oppositions used to construct the stakeholders or sides in the discourse, while semantic isotopies were used to thematically identify the main views espoused regarding the document in question. The DIMEAN multilayered discourse analysis methodology was used to show how discourse relevant phenomena permeate the texts in the corpus and how in line with Wittgenstein’s concept of family resemblances they intertwine to create the discourse at the supratextual level.