Linguistic and Language-Oriented Aspects of Towards a History of Carniola

Authors

  • Najda Ivanova University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/SLS.5.1.07

Keywords:

SLV, Slovenian language, language ideology, enlightenment, Nation-building, Anton Tomaž Linhart, history, Slovenia

Abstract

In a general cultural sense Thomas Linhart's Towards a History of Carniola (1788–1791) promotes the all-Slovene national idea for which the work is of pivotal importance to Slovene historical writing. The novel third section of the second book, devoted to Slovene folk culture, marks the beginning of Slovene ethnography. In this context the article treats Slovene language material in the book as an expression of Linhart's innovative linguistic ideas on Slovene in terms of substance, structure and language ideology, which in a significant way shaped the tendencies in the development of the Slovene standard language in the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Published

2025-02-05

How to Cite

Ivanova, N. (2025). Linguistic and Language-Oriented Aspects of Towards a History of Carniola. Slovenski Jezik / Slovene Linguistic Studies, 5, 123–134. https://doi.org/10.3986/SLS.5.1.07

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