OBSERVATIONS ON LANGUAGE AND LEGAL-ADMINISTRATIVE STYLE IN THE WRITINGS OF NICOLAE BĂLCESCU
OBSERVATIONS ON LANGUAGE AND LEGAL-ADMINISTRATIVE STYLE IN THE WRITINGS OF NICOLAE BĂLCESCU
Author(s): Irina Ion Guță (Vlad)Subject(s): Lexis, Semantics, Language acquisition, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Descriptive linguistics, Stylistics
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: configuration of the Romanian language; Latin-Romanic borrowings; legal-administrative style; specialised words;
Summary/Abstract: The chapters entitled The Rights of Romanians to the High Porte and Collective Works and Official Acts during the 1848 Revolution, published in the first volume of Nicolae Balcescu's work, Historical, Political and Economic Writings, provide us with valuable information about the configuration of the literary Romanian language in Wallachia between 1780 and 1860, about the influence of Latin-Romance borrowings on the Romanian lexicon, and about the development and modernization of the legal- administrative style. The legal-administrative style appears as a variant of the language and reflects the relationship between the citizen and public institutions, its specific terminology comprising both words from the common language and strictly specialized words, which individualize this specialized language: abuse, administrator, assembly, voters, elections, ruler, commission, decree, delegate, deputy, magistrate, servant "official".
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 33
- Page Range: 530-540
- Page Count: 11
- Language: Romanian