Original scientific paper
LANGUAGE OF THE “DAWN” Ortographic, graphic and language (in)consistencies in the “Dawn”
Irina Budimir
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Mostar
Abstract
The printing house of the catholic mission in Herzegovina which was managed
by owner friar Franjo Milićević was the unique publishing house in
the 19th century in Herzegovina. The publishing activities of this institution
paved the way to the journalism, literature, publicist writing and pedagogic-
education awareness in Herzegovina. The printing house, from the
time of establishment to the apprehension, changed 8 titles and in that
period, 77 books were printed as well as newspapers of the religious and
political content: Hecegovački bosiljak (1883/84), Novi hercegovački bosiljak
(1884/85), Glas Hercegovca (1885/1896) and Osvit (1898/1908).
This paper deals with the language of the newspapers Osvit. Regarding
the fact that this newspapers has been published in Mostar in the late
19th and early 20th century and the political as well as language circumstances
of its establishment caused the interesting fragments in history of
the printing house activity, this paper deals with the features of the Osvit
language. This newspapers observed the standard language of the philology
school of Zagreb in the way it was possible. The orthography, graph
and language consistencies and discrepancies as well as the reasons of
their appearance were analyzed in detail concerning the language standard
which was used by the editor and the associates.
Keywords
newspapers Osvit; orthography; graph and language consistencies and discrepancies.
Hrčak ID:
230470
URI
Publication date:
3.12.2007.
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