Latin or Vernacular? A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Czech Morphosyntactic Terminology during Renaissance Humanism

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Latin or Vernacular? A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Czech Morphosyntactic Terminology during Renaissance Humanism

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This study examines the Czech morphological and syntactic terminology in the long sixteenth century, when Renaissance Humanism fully emerged in the Czech lands. Focusing on Czech grammars and school Latin textbooks, it investigates the language choices in these texts, their Czech terminology for describing Czech and/or Latin, and its evolution over time. Unlike earlier studies, which frame the history of Czech grammatical terminology as a continuous, teleological progression from medieval origins to modern scientific terminology, this study situates it within the sociocultural and discursive practices of the period. It approaches terminology as being shaped by individual handbook authors, the needs of theirintended users, and the interaction of multiple languages in a multilingual environment. By exploring who created this terminology, for whom, under what conditions, and for what purposes, the analysis shows that it is misleading to regard this vocabulary as the first stage of a Czech specialized grammatical terminology. Rather, it functioned as school terminology - an auxiliary tool designed to support beginners&apos; study of Latin until they could proceed without recourse to their native language. This conclusion is supported by the fact that the use of Czech terms was also avoided in contemporary Czech grammars, probably in order to enhance the prestige of Czech as a language comparable to the classical ones.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Latin or Vernacular? A Historical Sociolinguistic Perspective on Czech Morphosyntactic Terminology during Renaissance Humanism

Popis výsledku anglicky

This study examines the Czech morphological and syntactic terminology in the long sixteenth century, when Renaissance Humanism fully emerged in the Czech lands. Focusing on Czech grammars and school Latin textbooks, it investigates the language choices in these texts, their Czech terminology for describing Czech and/or Latin, and its evolution over time. Unlike earlier studies, which frame the history of Czech grammatical terminology as a continuous, teleological progression from medieval origins to modern scientific terminology, this study situates it within the sociocultural and discursive practices of the period. It approaches terminology as being shaped by individual handbook authors, the needs of theirintended users, and the interaction of multiple languages in a multilingual environment. By exploring who created this terminology, for whom, under what conditions, and for what purposes, the analysis shows that it is misleading to regard this vocabulary as the first stage of a Czech specialized grammatical terminology. Rather, it functioned as school terminology - an auxiliary tool designed to support beginners&apos; study of Latin until they could proceed without recourse to their native language. This conclusion is supported by the fact that the use of Czech terms was also avoided in contemporary Czech grammars, probably in order to enhance the prestige of Czech as a language comparable to the classical ones.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Beitrage zur Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft

ISSN

0939-2815

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1-2

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

37

Strana od-do

155-191

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105028005609