| Title: | Funcţia stilistică a topicii adjectivale în limba română |
| Author: | Valerica Sporiș |
| Publication: | Annales Universitatis Apulensis. Series Philologica, 11 (1), p. 241-250 |
| p-ISSN: | 1582-5523 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918” |
| Place: | Alba Iulia |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | Aiming at interdisciplinarity, the topic of this article focusses on the adjective order in Romanian, especially on its stylistic function. Like Latin, Romanian inflexion enables a relatively free word order. The richer inflexion in a language, the freer the word order, therefore less subject to constraints which refer to ordering words during communication. This linguistic reality enables the exploitation of some features that emphasize lexical or syntactical units, that single out a functional variety or an individual style, it also enables language to render valuable all expressive sources that are influenced by word order. Romanian language can be included in the ”head first” category. According to the main rules of word order the adjective is placed after the word it determines. In Romanian pre-positioning, the inverted, subjective word order is mainly associated with a stylistic phenomenon. Spoken language and poetic style usually do not take into account the normal sequence of words in an utterance. In Romanian language the word order can accomplish the following functions: grammar (mainly syntactical), pragmatical, lexical-semantic, stylistic. The numerous cases of special word order emphasize the stylistic function of the latter which is rendered by means of inversion. Gh. N. Dragomirescu states that inversion ’’cannot be considered a figure of speech in itself, one would rather consider it a ”technique”, a means which would lead to obtaining other figures of speech”. The tendency referring to the way an adjective is placed within an utterance, with regard to the noun it determines represents an issue with stylistic implications. As regards the noun group, the most frequent type of inversion consists of placing the adjectival determinative before the determinative (anastrophe). Pre-positioning of the adjective within the noun group is frequently used in journalism. In poetry versification, metrical structure, rhyme, the rhythmical and semantic fluency of the text account for the use of inversion. In folklore, the spiritual universe of a nation, usually perceived as a collective entity, the word order is often unusual as a result of pressures, of strictness related to prosody and metrics, as well as of free speech. There are many cases of inversion and poetic displacement in Romanian literature and they characterize all literary periods. Inversion can help to emphasize the emphatic function of word order, which prevails in old texts, especially in chronicles. Topicality aims at the pragmatic effect of highlighting the element displaced in the initial position of the utterance. The adjective displacement represents a means of intensifying a characteristic, of emphasising the displaced term (with stylistic purposes), or it may refer to a pragmatic purpose that of drawing attention on the term in question. |
| Key words: | interdisciplinarity; word order; inversion; stylistics; adjective |
| Language: | Romanian |
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