Sprejemanje vzhodnoštajerske knjižnojezikovne norme v rokopisnih pridigah Jožefa Muršca : doktorska disertacija

slovenian

doktorska dela

2019

dissertations   East Slovenian standard language   East Styrian standard language   language history   sermons   Slovene language

Univerza v Mariboru, Filozofska fakulteta

The doctoral dissertation discusses and assesses the role of the sermon manuscripts of Jožef Muršec, an important national awakener, in the history of the Slovenian standard language. It focuses on literary traditions in the East Slovenian region where a special East Styrian regional version of the Slovenian standard language was developed. In the theoretical part, besides the already known biographical data, the author pays special attention to Muršec's views on the Slovenian language as well as his work as a grammarian which shows how East Styrians implemented the common Slovenian literary norm in the mid 19th century. Subsequently, a detailed overview of the so far known literature in the East Styrian region is provided which is supplemented by less known or overlooked manuscripts. A closer observation of the linguistic cultural situation in the first half of the 19th century does not focus very much on the activity of Peter Dajnko but rather depicts the linguistic disunity or the unity within the same generations of the more prominent East Styrian writers. Jožef Muršec came from a generation of young priests who were unable to fully join the romantic bourgeois movements such as Illyrism and Pan-Slavism due to their social class. His and the younger generation in particular obviously sympathised with those movements and had critical opinions regarding Dajnko's utilitarian literary-linguistic programme. The main empirical part of the dissertation is an attempt to place Muršec's early sermons according to the East Styrian, the broader Pannonian (Prekmurian and Kajkavian) as well as the Central Slovenian (Carniolan and Carinthian) linguistic system. The basis for the evaluation is therefore not only Dajnko's grammar but also other grammars as well as previous and concurrent literary tradition. It is due to this tradition why we can observe a linguistic transformation within a linguistic region as well as a continuity of literary regional and/or dialectic regional linguistic elements. Within this literary-linguistic system, the input of well-defined linguistic forms from other Slovenian ethnic regions is recognised as linguistic enrichment and a part of the standardisation process. In his sermon manuscripts, Jožef Muršec has maintained the East Styrian linguistic tradition in accordance with his linguistic knowledge which he gathered as a student of Koloman Kvas in Graz and as a reader of the works of Dajnko.

08.08.2023