Original scientific paper

Analysis of Italianisms in Martin Benetovi ć’s Renaissance play Hvarkinja

Nada Županović ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The analysis of Italianisms in Martin Benetović’s Renaissance play Hvarkinja shows that the
characters’ way of speaking reflects the structure of social relations of the period. Apart from
creating the comic effect, language is used as indicator of the speakers’ social status. This tendency
is most visible in the usage of Italianisms. Italianisms as signs of cultural prestige are used by the
upper-class characters and they are not present in the lines spoken by the peasants.
The paper analyses the adaptation of Italianisms on the phonological, morphological and semantic
levels and discusses the syntactic and phraseological calques and code switching.

Keywords

Italianisms; phonological; morphological and semantic adaptation; code switching; Martin Benetović; Hvarkinja

Hrčak ID:

27266

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/27266

Publication date:

6.10.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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