MONICA HUȚANU,
ADINA CHIRILĂ
DOI: 10.33993/dr.2024.2.224.234
Author's coordinates: Universitatea din Belgrad/Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara/Institutul Limbii Române, Studentski trg 3, 11000, Belgrad
Email: monica.hutanu@fil.bg.ac.rs
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4073-1663
Author's coordinates: Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, Bd. Vasile Pârvan nr. 4, 419,
300223, Timișoara
Email: adina.chirila@e-uvt.ro
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4979-0675
„LITERARY LANGUAGE” – „STANDARD LANGUAGE”.
A NECESSARY TERMINOLOGICAL REVISION IN ROMANIAN
(Abstract)
The purpose of this paper is to analyse two linguistic terms, limbă literară (literary language) and limbă standard (standard language), which illustrate a particular type of terminological instability in Romanian linguistics: throughout times, they have been used either in a hyponymy/hypernymy relation, or in an equivalence one. We first provide a short history of the usage of the two terms from the ’50s onwards, and then we concentrate on the situation encountered today in linguistic papers, but also in school curricula and textbooks. As a result of our analysis, we advocate for a terminological revision of the two terms: while limbă literară is the only appropriate term for Old Romanian (early 16th – late 18th centuries), limbă standard is now used (and has been for a while) as its synonym, highlighting the standardization process that Romanian has undergone (starting from the 19th century), and should be registered as such in dictionaries.
Keywords: „literary language”, „standard language”, linguistic terminology, dictionary, Romanian.
Cuvinte-cheie: limbă literară, limbă standard, terminologie lingvistică, dicționar, limba română.
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