Search results for "dialectal"
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Lament for the loss of al-Andalus in two Zajal from Cútar
2012
This article edits, translates, comments and examines several aspects related with two strophic poems in Andalusian Arabic dialect. They are written in a miscellaneous volume recently found in Cútar (Málaga). Their contents speak about the hard moments lived during the last times of Muslim political power in the Iberian Peninsula. Mention is made to the copyist and the possible author of the poems.
Baltic and Finnic linguistic relations reflected in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages
2014
The article provides insight into the reflection of Baltic and Finnic language contacts in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages. These contacts have a rather long history, and are particularly intense between the Latvian language and Finnic languages (especially Livonian and Estonian). In Lithuanian, Finnic borrowings have mostly appeared through Latvian, and fall into the dialectal Lithuanian vocabulary. The analysed material makes it possible to distinguish several areas of Finnic influences in Latvian sub-dialects. They are as follows: 1) the territory of the Livonian dialect which originated from Latvian-Livonian contact; 2) the sub-dialects along the Estonian border; 3) the su…
A dialectal reading of the History of Translation
2013
La traducción de variedades dialectales es uno de los retos más difíciles y a la vez interesantes que enfrentan los traductores literarios. Si bien los aportes teóricos acerca de la traducción dialectal surgen principalmente a partir de 1960, el presente artículo propone una lectura histórica de la traductología desde la antigüedad hasta la primera mitad del siglo XX indagando acerca de las “implicaciones” que los grandes hitos traductológicos hubieran podido tener para la traducción de dialectos. Ya que los textos dialectales se conciben dentro de una jerarquización política de la lengua, se propone un paralelismo entre ‘dialecto-estándar’ y ‘lengua vernácula-lengua dominante’. Se rastrea …
Que ja·s parla different que·s parlava deu anys ha esta part. El català modern : la baula imprescindible
2019
En el present article fem un repàs de les causes que han provocat que els textos catalans dels segles XVII i XVIII i del primer terç del XIX hagin estat tradicionalment objecte de poca estima, raó per la qual l’estudi lingüístic del català modern ha rebut menys atenció que el d’altres períodes. Malgrat aquesta situació, assenyalem algunes innovacions de la llengua d’aquest període que converteixen el seu estudi en molt atractiu i, alhora, molt necessari per a tenir un coneixement complet de les fases evolutives del català des dels orígens fins als nostres dies i, especialment, per a comprendre les innovacions que van convertir la llengua medieval en una llengua moderna força propera a la qu…
Scantu, cantu e cuntu in Maruzza Musumeci: un’analisi etnodialettologica
2023
Lo scopo di questo contributo è verificare se la scrittura di Andrea Camilleri possa essere sottoposta a una lettura etnodialettologica attraverso il riferimento ad alcuni elementi documentari ed evocativi della tradizione cultura siciliana. Così, il primo romanzo della cosiddetta trilogia fantastica, Maruzza Musumeci (2007), sarà preso come caso di studio per valutare attraverso alcuni indizi linguistici la connessione tra paura, canto e racconto orale, che costituiscono un contesto unitario nell'immaginario popolare siciliano. Grazie all'analisi dell'ipotesto etno-dialettale, Maruzza – piuttosto che essere assimilata esclusivamente ad una Sirena – appare con i lineamenti delle figure femm…
Nomi d’arte e soprannomi di cantautori, rapper e band della scena musicale siciliana
2019
Nowadays the names and bynames of pop-groups and musicians are more and more characterized by multiple, differentiated onomaturgical solutions which allow us to explore and comprehend current linguistic and cultural trends as well as the metalinguistic awareness/competence of authors and «users» of the music industry. On the one hand, as far as the national and international scenario is concerned, many names are based on a sort of game of mirrors: from personal names to place names and street names, from sign names to brand names, a lot of linguistic material «rebounds” on the names of singers and bands. On the other hand, as far as the Sicilian dialect song context is concerned, most names…
Introduzione alle registrazioni siciliane
2022
This is a very concise outline of the linguistic framework of Sicily as an introduction to the essay analysing the “Recordings from Prisoner of War Camps, World War I. Italian Reconrdings”. This work, first published by the Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (edited by Gerda Lechleitner, Christian Liebl and Serenella Baggio) and now published by the Accademia della Crusca (edited by S. Baggio), contains in fact the records of three Sicilian prisoners, respectively from Alcamo (TP), Sciacca (AG) and Pietraperzia (EN).
Sicilia. Dialetto di Alcamo (Trapani), voce di Gaspare Regina: Ph 2948 [CD 1: 9]
2022
This essay contributes to the analysis of recordings made by the linguist Karl von Ettmayer in the Upper Austrian camps of Mauthausen and Marchtrenk. Within this survey, three folktales (in variants) were recorded: Folktale 1 (frequently known as La varva franca) is about a barber who offers shaving for free, Folktale 2 is about a widow handing over her property to a beggar supposed to be from paradise, and Folktale 3 is about a farmer who gets tricked by thieves. Recorded documents also contains some other fragmentary linguistic data on proverbs, songs and/or rhymes. The recordings are accompanied by detailed written documentation (the so-called protocols), which include transcriptions and…
A dialectal reading of the History of Translation
2013
The translation of dialect is one of the most difficult and yet interesting challenges facing literary translators. Although theoretical contributions about dialect translation develop mainly from 1960, this article proposes a historical reading of the history of translation from antiquity to the first half of the 20th century, inquiring about the “implications” that the milestones of translation might have had on the translation of dialect. Since dialect texts are conceived within a political hierarchy of language, a parallelism is established between ‘dialect-standard’ and ‘vernacular language-dominant language’. The emergence of terms and practices relevant for dialect translation (forei…
L'expressió de les hores en català : anàlisi contrastiva
2001
What time is it? Prefaced by this question, this paper investigates a number of ways to express the time in Catalan from a dialectal and pragmatic perspectiva. In this article, all dialectal varieties of the two main ways to tell the time (one based on the next hour, i.e. “one quarter of nine”, and the other based on the current hour, i.e. “eight and a quarter”) from the data from 190 locations surveyed for the Atles Lingüístic del Domini Català are described. The results of this analysis are compared to descriptive and normative proposals: grammars, style manuals, dictionaries, and other information sources. Finally, we give an account of the decline or the success of the two ways to tell …