VALORI STILISTICE ALE NEOLOGISMULUI IN ROMANUL
„MARA” DE IOAN SLAVICI
STYLISTIC VALUES OF NEOLOGISMS IN THE NOVEL
„MARA” BY IOAN SLAVICI
Laura ORBAN
Grupul Scolar “Iuliu Maniu”, Arad
Abstract
A scholarly writer, with good knowledge of ancient philosophy and literature, of the
Renaissance period, of modern philosophy- especially German- Ioan Slavici was also interested in
the philosophy and culture of the Orient, in the French Enlightenment and moralists. All this
knowledge will be reflected in the vocabulary he chose to use in his literary work. The presence of
neologisms in I.Slavici’s work has not been debated enough by literary critics and linguists. In the
two hundred and forty pages of the novel looked after by D. Vatamaniuc, only fifteen neologisms
have been identified. At a first glance, they seem to be insignificantly few, nevertheless the paper
attempts to show the values these terms had in the language of a writer whose main tendency was
mainly to use lexis of folk origin.
Key words:
neologism, style, scholarly language, authenticity
Cuvinte-cheie:
neologism, stil, limbaj cult, anticalofilism, autenticitate