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- Title
Between Theory and Practice.
- Authors
DeteŞan, Daniela
- Abstract
The study presents the general principles guiding, in practice, the editing of the Transylvanian Romanian historical documents from the second half of the 19th century . Nevertheless, there are some general norms and theoretical principles to be followed and to be concretely applied to texts written in Romanian (1848-1900). After describing the language debate in Transylvania before the 1848 Revolution, the author explains the contemporary attempts to shape and stabilize the Romanian language, presenting the etymological, phonetic and Latinist trends. The evolution of the Romanian language in the 19th century implies the need for a coherent, unified system to transcribe today older Romanian texts. The author debates the main issues involved in selecting, processing and editing these documents: transcription, punctuation, regime of capital letters, location of sources and references, date and place of the documents, proper names and nicknames, explanatory and critical footnotes, interpolated fragments in foreign languages, the document (regestum), the indexes of localities and persons.
- Subjects
HISTORICAL source material; NINETEENTH century; REVOLUTIONS; ETYMOLOGY; ROMANIAN language; TRANSCRIPTION (Linguistics); PUNCTUATION; ONOMASTICS; HISTORY
- Publication
Transylvanian Review, 2012, Vol 21, Issue 4, p33
- ISSN
1221-1249
- Publication type
Article