VYROVNÁVANIE SA S NÁREČOVOU INAKOSŤOU NA PRÍKLADE PREFERENČNÝCH INTERPRETAČNÝCH REAKCIÍ POUŽÍVATEĽOV NÁREČÍ S PRÍVLASTKOM OKRAJOVÉ A ARCHAICKÉ

• Authors: Kováčová Viera

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Coping with dialectal otherness on the example of preferential interpretative reactions of speakers of peripheral and archaic dialects

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The author deals with the results of development of the Slovak language diversity, which is manifested in its dialectal diverseness, and thus regionally specified variability of Slovak language community. Since the preservation and area distribution of archaic phenomena (which show the history of language and linguistic community) specifically reflect the opposition centre – periphery, the paper utilizes the potential that peripheral dialects provide for interpretation in terms of area. This is based on clarifying the understanding of the opposition centre and periphery, existing differentiated approaches to the understanding of the term archaism in academic literature and concentrating attention to developmental issues of relict archaisms. Their speakers are at present striving to cope with the fact that area-specific and time-specific archaic phenomena (which are in their environment perceived as something obvious, common and standardized) bring about isolation from wider linguistic surroundings. The answer to the question how the early 21st century speakers of peripheral dialects cope with their collectivized otherness could be found in their linguistic behaviour. In this behaviour we can see certain preferential interpretative reactions of speakers of these dialects, which are indicative of a fundamental perception perspective of altered linguistic situations and on the bases of the cognitive processing also of their collective method of coping with their dialectal otherness. The author illustrates preferential interpretative reactions of speakers of peripheral dialects on an example of the current linguistic behaviour of speakers of Sotak dialects of north-eastern Zemplín region. This is done within three interlinked themes: 1. transformation as change consistent with the nature of dialect and collectivised otherness of dialect speakers; 2. competitive systemization of elements as an expression of differentiated collective responses to the otherness of dialect; 3. the departure from area-identifying elements in response to a situation indicative of the central area which is not directly shaping the identification with the central state.

Keywords

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AREA CENTRALITY; RELICT ARCHAISM; DIALECTAL OTHERNESS; DIALECT; SPEAKERS; ZEMPLÍN; REGION; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Ludovit Stur Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenská reč (Slovak Language)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 81
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 147 – 159

Contributors

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Kováčová Viera

• Filozofická fakulta Katolíckej univerzity, Katedra slovenského jazyka a literatúry, Hrabovská cesta 1B, 034 01 Ružomberok, Slovak Republic