Towards a history of the Romanian punctuation
In the process of constructing an academic edition for old and pre-modern texts, although they thoroughly record and comment the phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and lexical variants of a text, its omissions and interpolations, etc., the Romanian philologists tend to deal tacitly with the problem...
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Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași
2016-02-01
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| author | Adina Chirilă |
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| description | In the process of constructing an academic edition for old and pre-modern texts, although they thoroughly record and comment the phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and lexical variants of a text, its omissions and interpolations, etc., the Romanian philologists tend to deal tacitly with the problem of punctuation, by adding rational, syntactic punctuation, according to the contemporary norm. This method has certain advantages for the general public, but, in fact, falsifies the text, because it puts the actions of a secondary agent—the editor—on the author. Moreover, the lack of perfect archæological relevations of the Romanian old and pre-modern texts—which would show, in this respect, the more or less consequent working habits of our early writers—leads, at least for the moment, to the impossibility of presenting the scientific community with a history of the Romanian punctuation. This is, nevertheless, an idea whose achievement depends on an objective re-evaluation of our contemporary editorial practice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68fa78ca17894e3d8bf20338833c32d42022-12-21T19:23:56ZengUniversitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza IașiDiacronia2393-11402016-02-01410.17684/i3A33enA33/enTowards a history of the Romanian punctuationAdina Chirilă0Faculty of Letters, History and Theology, West University, Bd. Vasile Pârvan 4, 300223 Timișoara, RomaniaIn the process of constructing an academic edition for old and pre-modern texts, although they thoroughly record and comment the phonetic, morphological, syntactic, and lexical variants of a text, its omissions and interpolations, etc., the Romanian philologists tend to deal tacitly with the problem of punctuation, by adding rational, syntactic punctuation, according to the contemporary norm. This method has certain advantages for the general public, but, in fact, falsifies the text, because it puts the actions of a secondary agent—the editor—on the author. Moreover, the lack of perfect archæological relevations of the Romanian old and pre-modern texts—which would show, in this respect, the more or less consequent working habits of our early writers—leads, at least for the moment, to the impossibility of presenting the scientific community with a history of the Romanian punctuation. This is, nevertheless, an idea whose achievement depends on an objective re-evaluation of our contemporary editorial practice.http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/4/A33/en/pdftext editingphilology |
| spellingShingle | Adina Chirilă Towards a history of the Romanian punctuation Diacronia text editing philology |
| title | Towards a history of the Romanian punctuation |
| title_full | Towards a history of the Romanian punctuation |
| title_fullStr | Towards a history of the Romanian punctuation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a history of the Romanian punctuation |
| title_short | Towards a history of the Romanian punctuation |
| title_sort | towards a history of the romanian punctuation |
| topic | text editing philology |
| url | http://www.diacronia.ro/ro/journal/issue/4/A33/en/pdf |
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