| Title: | Le langage scientifique et technique dans l’univers de la langue commune des personnages du théâtre d’Eugène Ionesco |
| Author: | Monica Ioani |
| Publication: | Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica, 11 (3), p. 39-50 |
| p-ISSN: | 1582-5523 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918” |
| Place: | Alba Iulia |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | Ionesco dealt with language as he wanted to unmask the danger of totalitarianism, of paranoid disorders, of the unstoppable tendency to dominate and have power and to mock at transfixed thought. Subjected to the ceaseless mass media babble, man becomes ever more skeptical in front of language nimieties. First language depreciates under the pressure of the communication means, secondly through the narrow specialisations related to professions and trades. The analysis of the scientific and technical wooden language found in Ionesco’s texts demonstrates, in fact, how the playwright incriminates the role of the scientific and technical language used as pretext for wooden language in an alienated society. The impact of the scientific and technical language can be seen in the inflation of verbs, the permanent expansion of the language through homogenous forms, the inevitable progress towards clichés and the continuous temptation of being only objective. These means of word formation mentioned and used by the playwright are typical of the languages for specific purposes. Ionesco proceeds, then, to highlight what is typical to these languages in order to undermine them through their very wooden language features. In a step forward, in a way reminding of the Dadaist current, Ionesco applies a set of scientific and technical language word formation methods to create nonsense, and hence, by subtle instillations, the language used in his texts gains the statute of a wooden language. We think the playwright stigmatizes this language which is normally the support for science and neutrality, that should convey confidence and happiness, but, which, according to Ionesco, will bring about only lack of confidence and additional fears for mankind. The analysis of the aspect mentioned above is based upon the common features that make the scientific and technical language and wooden language come close and on the detailed linguistic study of numerous texts written by Ionesco, with the help of research methods typical of the languages for specific purposes. |
| Key words: | theatre; scientific and technical language; the language of the absurd; depreciation; wooden language |
| Language: | French |
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Citations to this publication: 1
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 53, 2010). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2010 | LR, LX (3), 307-453 | 2011 | pdf html |
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