Phraseological units and their variants in a specific German-language egodocument of Slovak provenance from the mid-19th century

Autori

Martin Braxatoris
Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences image/svg+xml
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5278-8261 (non autenticato)
Anita Braxatorisová
Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences image/svg+xml
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9502-2725 (non autenticato)

Sinossi

This study deals with the issue of the conventionalisation of selected figurative and non-figurative locutions and their variants within a specific German-language egodocument of Slovak origin from the 19th century, the author of which is Samuel Ferjenčík, a prominent figure in Slovak intellectual circles. A thorough textual analysis of the document, discovered on the premises of Ferjenčík’s former rectory and comprising 908 entries on 155 manuscript pages, sheds light on Ferjenčík’s stylistic preferences and rhetorical strategies. Using Conventional Figurative Language Theory (CFLT) as a theoretical framework, the study examines Ferjenčík's deliberate selection and modification of phraseological units to enhance stylistic competence. By analysing the content of the document, the research reveals different categories of figurative and non-figurative elements, each of which offers an insight into Ferjenčík's literary environment and communicative intentions. Ultimately, this research contributes to a deeper understanding of linguistic conventions and stylistic preferences prevalent in the 19th-century German-language discourse.

Biografie autore

Martin Braxatoris, Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

(1983) is a literary historian at the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He studied at the Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, in Bratislava, and has taught Slovak language and culture abroad. His research focuses on Slovak literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, occasional poetry in the vernacular, and early Slavic homiletics and hymnography. He has also published on the earlier history of Slovak, thematic and motif-based aspects of older literature, and the relationship between language, text, and literary history. He is the author of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of Occasional Works in Slovak Literature (2025) and So-Called Methodius’ Canon to Demetrius of Thessalonica (2022), and co-author of several monographs.

 

Anita Braxatorisová, Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

is a Research Fellow at the Ľudovít Štúr Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses on Slovak–German–Hungarian interlingual issues, translation equivalence, and cultural differences in linguistic imagery from the perspective of comparative phraseology and axiological processes in language use. Her research is based on corpus and applied linguistics, approaches that she applies not only to contemporary language use but also to printed journals and manuscripts from the 19th century. These interests resulted in the following co-authored works: Perspektiven einer Zeitschrift am Beispiel des Tirnauer Wochenblatts (1869–1918) and Samuel Ferjenčík und sein Buch der Exzerpte und Notizen.

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giugno 30, 2026

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