| Abstract [eng] |
Modern writing in spoken code, its structural, functional, and other variations, is a relatively under-researched phenomenon. Recently, a critical discourse on written dialecticity has begun to develop in Lithuania. A dialect grapholect – writing in dialect code by an ordinary member of the language community, has been studied. The master’s thesis discusses the problem of dialectal orality and its dialecticity in writing. More specifically, the aspect of the interaction between oral and written structures of language, which is aimed to be studied as the value of written dialecticity. Accordingly, the theoretical and methodological framework for investigating the writing in spoken code is created, and three structured and discursive cases of written dialecticity are analyzed. These are dialectal translations of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s philosophical fairy tale “The Little Prince” (2024) in Northern Samogitian subdialect, Eastern Aukštaitian subdialect of Utena, and Southern Aukštaitian subdialect. The empirical material consists of written expressions encoding dialectal features of phonetics (phonology), morphology (and word formation), lexis, and syntax. To study the material dialectological analysis and comparative method are used. After presenting the empirical discourse, the final insights are formulated. Dialectal translations are a discursive (re)presentation of a particular dialectal variant and identity. Due to the interacting structural aspect, e. g. difference from the standard language in spelling and expression, and socio-psychological aspect, e. g. identification with a particular (linguistic) community, written expressions are given a corresponding social meaning and can encode orality. Therefore, in relation to dialect reality, excessive and unified expression is functional. It should be considered that, due to the discursive nature of the empirical cases and the diversity of the dialectal features, the decisions of spelling and expression are not of equal value within the structure of written dialecticity. |
