The Second Life of Dialects: Central Middle-Moravian Dialects Used in Public Speaking and the “Hanakian Revival”

• Authors: Stupňánek Bronislav , Ireinová Martina

Title variants

CS

Druhý život nářečí: Centrální středomoravské dialekty užívané ve veřejné komunikaci a tzv. hanácké obrození

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Since the turn of the 21st century, a considerably increasing interest in local dialects in Czech regions with traditionally strong regional identity can be observed. This interest seems to be a response to the current rapid decline of dialects and deep disparity between languages spoken by the oldest and the youngest generations. The reaction thereon includes active efforts to maintain or even renew the dialects. However, it is private spoken communication that is the most natural field for dialects and therefore the effort for public coverage and the appeal to wide regional audience inevitably leads to the fact that the dialects get into the context and functions which are not typical for them or which are completely new (dialect textbooks and courses, websites and news portals in dialects, dialect texts of songs from modern musical genres etc.). Although this phenomenon shares common features in almost the entire territory of our traditional territorial dialects, the most frequent occurrence of it can be observed in the area where central Middle-Moravian dialects are spoken. In accordance with the explicitly expressed intention of those who spread the dialects in this region, the authors of the study call the above-mentioned phenomenon “the Hanakian Revival”.

Keywords

EN

Dialect levelling; central Middle-Moravian dialects; dialect textbooks; dialect dictionaries dialects in the ethnographic; region of Haná; “Hanakian Revival”

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 317 - 325

Contributors

author

Stupňánek Bronislav

author

Ireinová Martina