Publication details
Z dějin litevské stylistiky
| Title in English | A Survey of the History of the Lithuanian Stylistics |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Slovo a slovesnost |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Stylistics; Lithuanian language; Lithuanian stylistics |
| Description | The article deals with the history of Lithuanian stylistics. In the first chapter old Lithuanian literature is presented from the stylistic point of whew. Before the 19th century three main styles can be recognised: the ecclesiastic, the official and the style of polite literature. The ecclesiastic style has a dominating position and includes oldest Lithuanian texts from the 16th century; the official style and the polite literature where influenced by German and Polish and recovered an independent stylistic features only at the end of 18th century. The full stylistic scale developed Lithuanian literature at the beginning of 20th century. Chapter two analyses the rise and development of the Lithuanian stylistic theory in the 20th and 21t century. Stylistics became an independent science in Lithuania in 1930-ties and its development where closely connected with the functional theory of language, represented by works of the Prague Linguistic Circle. Juozas Pikčilingis laid in "Lietuviř kalbos stilistika" (1971) the foundation of the Lithuanian present-day stylistic theory, which is continued and extended by new generation of scientists as Kazimieras Ţuperka (the theory of the competition of linguistic means), Audrone Bitiniene (statistic researches of style) or Juozas Abaravičius (the punctuation-stylistics). |