The Habits of Writing and Parlance of the Populist Poet, Újvári Anna Cover Image

Újvári Anna népi költő írásszokásai és nyelvhasználata
The Habits of Writing and Parlance of the Populist Poet, Újvári Anna

Author(s): Csilla T. Szabó
Subject(s): Hungarian Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület
Keywords: populist poet; habit of writing; method of working; motivation; parlance;

Summary/Abstract: In my study I analyse the populist poet’s, Újvári Anna’s habits of writing, method of working, the language of her poems and her parlance. The basic view of the analysis’s method is that the usage of writing is a form of communication the role of which can be interpreted in the context of the one’s path in life. In the research of the peasant habits of writing the question of the authorship, the dating, the execution of writing, the forms of the text’s wording, the time, occasions and motivation of writing are really important. Újvári Anna’s parlance totally reflects her mode of existence. In her texts orality becomes objectivized. The dialectal peculiarities still living in Szucság/Suceagu, the formal defects generally prevailing in the standard language appear in the writing, too. As regards her orthography and general written form, their level corresponds with her education, actually it surpasses that of the similar aged ones’. Her good descriptive talent and the fact that she writes frequently by comparison become visible on the leaves of the writing-books.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: V
  • Page Range: 111-122
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian