VZPOURA PROTI SPISOVNOSTI POŽADAVKY NA JAZYK LITERATURY A POVÍDKY JANA ZÁBRANY

The language of literary texts is a complex and multiform phenomenon. One of the problems connected with it is the employment of non-standard linguistic varieties. This paper focuses on the especial situation in Czech culture in the 1950s. In that decade, literary critics and linguists strictly requ...

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Published in:Jazykovedný časopis 2023-07, Vol.74 (2), p.547-560
Main Author: Mareš, Petr
Format: Article
Language:cze
Subjects:
Czech language
Language
Linguists
Nonstandard dialects
Obscenities
Slang
Spoken language
Standard dialects
Stylistics
Zabrana, Jan (1931-1984)
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Summary:The language of literary texts is a complex and multiform phenomenon. One of the problems connected with it is the employment of non-standard linguistic varieties. This paper focuses on the especial situation in Czech culture in the 1950s. In that decade, literary critics and linguists strictly required the use of Standard Czech and the restriction of non-standard varieties in literary texts. On the other hand, various inedited works were written the language of which was based on the so-called Common Czech, colloquialisms and slangs. The main part of the paper describes the language of stories by Jan Zábrana (from the years 1954 to 1957) in relation to the official requirements. Zábrana’s stories (published posthumously in the 1990s) represent a radical denying of these requirements. Zábrana depicts spontaneous and informal spoken communication that differs from the idea of cultivated standard expression. Both the figures and the narrator consistently use nonstandard linguistic means and colloquial lexicon (including vulgarisms).
ISSN:0021-5597
1338-4287
DOI:10.2478/jazcas-2024-0010