Original scientific paper

Everyday Language in Marulić's Croatian Works

Smiljka Malinar

Abstract

Everyday language is a topical subject in scholarship to which contributions have been made by several researchers into Marulić’s lexis (Nevenka Bezić-Božanić, Cvito Fisković). The paper, taking into account the contribution of new historiography to literary and linguistic research, considers the extent to which Marulić’s texts refer out to his biographical everyday life and indicate the documentary reality of his time and milieu. The article investigates the possibility of obtaining reliable and full results on the basis of partial and restricted material that documents only some forms of the communicational totality of the period from which it derives and in which only one diamesic level is represented, that of the written language. The ultimate scepticism must be contributed to be the deficiencies and unreliability of the fundamental auxiliary research instrument, the Academy’s Dictionary, established on a "test sample" of Marulić’s lexis.

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Hrčak ID:

11903

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/11903

Publication date:

22.4.2007.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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