Contemporary Czech culture (the style of poetic and dramatic texts) and the culture / cultivation o f language / speech
Jana Hoffmannová
Abstract
This páper attempts to interrelate culture (as a set of values produced and received by a specific community, including its artistic and literary production) and language/speech
culture/cultiva on. Its point of departure is the classic hierarchy of styles, the differentiation between high style (which is associated with cultivated, and in Czech, exclusively standard
language expression), middle and low style. Low style is characterized by the use of non-standard. slang and expressive means and vulgarisms, and currently extends into Czech
literatuře; the style characteristics o f which, in addition to the non-standard means listed above, are contributed to by a significant amount of English loanwords, trendy words and phi ases (often from the media and advertising spheres). The use of all means of low style by the younger generation o f Czech authors is motivated by cnrical attitudes towards the
contemporary consumption-oriented society. This is documented in the páper through examples irom two playwrights (David Drábek, Petr Kolečko) and two poets (Karel Škrabal, Jan
Tesnohlídek, Jr.). The critical orientation of the authors is directed toward the lifestyle of the society - it is, of course, a question, how to evaluate their work from the perspective of language
culture/cultivation.
Keywords:
language speech culture/cultivation, high — middle — low style, contemporary Czech drama and poetry, expressive means, slang, vulgarisms, English loanwords, trendy wordsAuthors
Jana HoffmannováStatistics
Downloads
License
1. Copyrights to published works are held by the University of Opole (to the collective work) and the Authors (to individual parts of the collective work that have an independent meaning).
2. Only previously undistributed works can be published in the scientific journal "Stylistics".
3. The University of Opole does not restrict the possibility of the author's further dissemination of his work on condition that the scientific journal "Stylistics" is indicated as the original place of publication and the consent of the University Publishing House.
4. Consent to the publication of the work in the scientific journal "Stylistics" is tantamount to granting the author a non-exclusive license to the University of Opole, including the right to use the work without territorial restrictions and time limits in the following fields of exploitation:
a) within the scope of recording and multiplication of the work - production of any number of copies of the work in whole or in part using a specified technique, including printing, reprography, magnetic recording and digital technique, introduction of the work into computer memory and computer networks,
b) within the scope of circulation of the original or copies on which the work has been recorded - circulation, lending or hiring of the original or copies,
c) within the scope of dissemination of the work in a manner other than specified in item 2 - making the work or its abstract available on the Internet by enabling the recipients to access the work on-line or enabling them to download the work to their own device that makes it possible to read it, placing the work in electronic databases that disseminate scientific works, including in particular the CEEOL database (Central and Eastern Online Libray) and the abstract in English in the CEJSH database (The Central Europaen Journal of Social Scienes and Humanites).
d) within the scope of creating and distributing dependent works created using the work - using them in the fields of exploitation specified in points 1-3.
5. The author is not entitled to compensation for granting the license to the work.
6. The author agrees that the University may grant further permission to use the work (sublicense) in the fields of exploitation specified in par. 2 paragraph 4.
7. The author agrees that, in connection with the distribution of the work, his or her personal information, that is, name, affiliation, and e-mail address, may be made public.
Most read articles by the same author(s)
- Jana Hoffmannová, The syntax of spoken Czech as an instrument of subjectivization processes in the prose of Petra Soukupová , Stylistyka: Vol. 25 (2016): Gajda i stylistyka
- Jana Hoffmannova, Ivana Kolarova, Kombinatorika tempordlnich konektoru: jejich semanticko-pragmatickd a stylisticka profilace (ziskand interpretaci korpusoyych dat) , Stylistyka: Vol. 16 (2007): Styl i czas - Style and Time
- Jana Hoffmannová, „Small words“ and their contribution to the style of spoken discourse , Stylistyka: Vol. 26 (2017): Słowo a styl
- Jana Hoffmannová, Constructing an image of the past for young readers: mixing styles and genres , Stylistyka: Vol. 28 (2019): Styl i pamięć
- Jana Hoffmannová, Emotionality and expressivity, critique and evaluation in live sports commentary and fan reactions , Stylistyka: Vol. 30 (2021): Style and Emotions
- Jana Hoffmannová, Alena Macurová - Petr Mareš: Text a komunikace. jazyk v literárním díle a ve filmu. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Philologica Monographia CXVII, Praha 1993, 176 s. , Stylistyka: Vol. 3 (1994): Comparative Stylistics
- Jana Hoffmannová, Mluvené a psané texty ve vzájemných citacích (aluzích) , Stylistyka: Vol. 1 (1992): Stylistics today
- Jana Hoffmannová, Positioning and the Style o f Conversation in a Czech Talk Show , Stylistyka: Vol. 19 (2010): Style a media
- JANA HOFFMANNOVÁ, O dialogickou a intertextovou stylistiku , Stylistyka: Vol. 4 (1995): Tekst i styl - Text and style - Текст и стиль
- Jana Hoffmannová, Postmodernizm w literaturze i kulturze krajów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, red. H. Janaszek-Ivaničková - D. Fokkema, Katowice: Śląsk, 1995, 312 s. , Stylistyka: Vol. 5 (1996): Applied Stylistics