Publication details
Jakou češtinu užíval Bedřich Smetana? / Bedřich Smetana’s Use of the Czech Language
| Title in English | Bedřich Smetana´s Use of the Czech Language |
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Musicalia. Časopis Českého muzea hudby |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Bedřich Smetana - 19th Century - Correspondence - Sociolinguistics - Language Biography - Bilingualism - Linguistic Analysis |
| Description | The study create a language biography of Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884), determined mainly by Czech and German, based on his correspondence and other sources. The article then discuss his written Czech, influenced directly and indirectly by the Czech-German language contacts typical of the Czech lands during the 19th century. The language biography takes into consideration the form and usage of Czech and German in various environments (family, school, church, work, office, culture and free time) in view of both the locations where Smetana lived and the status and prestige of the two languages in the Czech lands as they changed over the course of time. The analysis Smetana’s Czech addresses all linguistic levels (spelling / phonetics, morphology, vocabulary and syntax). The article demonstrates that Smetana can be considered a bilingual user of Czech and German, who was capable of communicating in both languages in a whole spectrum of language situations, even though his written Czech shows certain limitations which he consciously endeavoured to overcome during the second half of this life. |
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