Normativne in slogovne značilnosti Slomškovih pridig : doktorska disertacija

slovenian

doktorska dela

2019

artistic language   Central Slovene literary language   corpus approach   digital humanities   diplomatic transcript   dissertations   Eastern Slovene literary language   history of language   language of sermons   linguistic analysis   linguistic norm   sermons   Slovene language   stylistic analysis

Univerza v Mariboru, Filozofska fakulteta

Doctoral thesis with its scientific critical evaluation discusses the constructive role of Slomšek's language of sermons in forming the Slovene literary language. Alongside the texts of announcing literary form, which in the development show the highest level of cultivatedness, the author in the historic developmental overview discusses the language development or the transformation of the literary norm from Trubar to Slomšek, and with this at first proves that the Slovene literary language developed normatively and formed alongside the language of sermons, which had a decisive influence on the norm and regulation of the Central and Eastern Slovene literary language. With the research the author confirms that the language of sermons is a living, spoken Slovene language in which by Trubar's model of norming the Central Slovene literary language, the dialectal characteristics of the region combine in a cultivated literary system. The language of sermons is also proof for the existence of regional literary versions. At the same time, in it the Slovene language tradition upgrades itself with modern linguistic events, and this connects into a reliable and solid linguistic norm and regulation. In the language of sermons, it comes to a confrontation between the written tradition and the spoken image of the language, in which it also realises the puristic structural transformation of the Slovene literary language, with which the language of sermons opens the path to linguistic uniformity and solid linguistic normativity. The doctoral thesis therefore presents the basis for evaluation of Slomšek's original part in forming of the literary language and its surpluses of the stylistic verbalisation with development overview of the Slovene language of sermons. Thus the author first points to Slomšek's general endeavour for the Slovene language and to his linguistic view, as he expressed it either in linguistic planning either in practical views on the language, realised in the grammar book Inbegriff der slowenischen Sprache für Ingeborne and in the rethoric manual Vaje cerkvene zgovornosti. Then the author by presenting Slomšek's preaching, his sermon opus, his theoretical bases for sermons, corpus of diplomatically copied manuscripts of sermons and their characteristics, either structurally or stylistically verbalised moves into the main part of the discussion of the doctoral topic. The main part of the thesis contains a linguistic and stylistic analysis of Slomšek's language of sermons and its placement in the development arch of Slovene sermons, especially according to the meaning which Slomšek's sermon had in forming a uniform Slovene literary language in the middle of the 19th century. This proves that Slomšek followed Kopitar's linguistic concept and maintained linguistic tradition, people's language which he upgraded to a solid literary system. Thus, it is an important element in the continuity of the linguistic development since Trubar. On the basis of phonetic morphological characteristics the author also proves that Slomšek was an important advocate of uniforming the Slovene languages not only in theoretical standpoints but also in the language of his sermons, because in choosing linguistic variations he consciously followed the Central Slovene type of language and presented it to the features of his linguistic space. The comparative overview of morphological characteristics confirms that he did not consistently follow the forms he presented in his grammar manuscript, he did not even wholly accept the Metelko's Central Slovene literary system, although it was more acceptable for him than Kopitar's, not even Danjko's Eastern Styrian, but he followed Murko's linguistic system solutions which have, on the basis of developmental historically valid versions, compromisingly implied the path of accepting new forms which he as an advocate of uniformity accepted into his sermons although not yet entirely consistently.

08.08.2023