Lexical Differentiations in Štokavian Readings of a Fragment from Marulić’s <i>Judith</i>

Čupković, Gordana

doi:10.31724/rihjj.52.1.6

Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, Vol. 52 No. 1, 2026.

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https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.52.1.6

Lexical Differentiations in Štokavian Readings of a Fragment from Marulić’s Judith

Gordana Čupković orcid.org/0000-0001-8591-6357 ; Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za kroatistiku

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APA 6th Edition

Čupković, G. (2026). Lexical Differentiations in Štokavian Readings of a Fragment from Marulić’s Judith. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, 52 (1). https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.52.1.6

MLA 8th Edition

Čupković, Gordana. "Lexical Differentiations in Štokavian Readings of a Fragment from Marulić’s Judith." Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, vol. 52, no. 1, 2026 https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.52.1.6. Accessed 26 Jul. 2026.

Chicago 17th Edition

Čupković, Gordana. "Lexical Differentiations in Štokavian Readings of a Fragment from Marulić’s Judith." Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik 52, no. 1 https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.52.1.6

Harvard

Čupković, G. (2026). 'Lexical Differentiations in Štokavian Readings of a Fragment from Marulić’s Judith', Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, 52(1). https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.52.1.6

Vancouver

Čupković G. Lexical Differentiations in Štokavian Readings of a Fragment from Marulić’s Judith. Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik [Internet]. 2026 [cited 2026 July 26];52(1). https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.52.1.6

IEEE

G. Čupković, "Lexical Differentiations in Štokavian Readings of a Fragment from Marulić’s Judith", Rasprave Instituta za hrvatski jezik, vol.52, no. 1, 2026. [Online]. https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.52.1.6

Abstract

The paper lists, categorizes and interprets the similarities and differences in lexical solutions that can be found in four Štokavian readings of the passage of the first canto of Marulić’s Judith: Slamnig’s (Marulić 1970), Grčić’s (Marulić 1983), Kolumbić’s (Marulić 1985) and Barbarić’s (Marulić 2021). The aim of the research is to illuminate the processes of stylization and metaphorization in the mediation of the contemporary (Croatian standard) language of a literary text written in the historical (Croatian Čakavian) literary language, which also opens up the possibility of looking at the problem of intralingual translation from the aspect of conceptual foundation. The examples were excerpted by close reading, the meanings were checked in the historical Academy Dictionary and in the modern online dictionary (Croatian language portal), while the representation in the modern language was checked in the Croatian online corpus (hrWaC). Quantitative processing obtained data on the amount of changes made per individual reading, while qualitatively, lexemes that are replaced are classified with regard to function into those that are not in contemporary general or regional use, those that are in contemporary use marked as regionalisms, that are in contemporary use in a different functional style, and lexemes that are in contemporary use in the same functional style, but with a shift in meaning. The research shows that the choice of lexical solutions in the readings is subordinated to the effort to maintain the high style in which the original was written, while the cultural identification of the canon, instead of preserving the language expressions, is achieved by preserving the meanings.