«Της γλώσσης μας τα κάλλη» : Για τη γλώσσα του Σολωμού
Part of : Ελληνικά : φιλολογικό, ιστορικό και λαογραφικό περιοδικό σύγγραμμα ; Vol.49, No.2, 1999, pages 317-346
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«The Beauties of our Language».
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There is a discrepancy between rigorous study of the language of Solomos and the attitude adopted by his Greek readers from his first «Greek» public appearance to this day - an attitude characterised by doubts and reservations or outright rejection as regards his dialectal-idiomatic language, even as regards proper knowledge of the Greek language itself on his part. This negative self-contradictory attitude has its roots in the «historical» effort of the «Athenian centre» to impose a «national» koine, at the expense of local dialects and idioms - and is also expressive of it. The main representatives of this negative attitude towards Solomos' language were: the «Phanariotes », I. R. Neroulos (1827), A. Soutsos (1833) and A. R. Rangavis (1855, 1877, 1885, 1887); Sp. Zambelios, who rejected Solomos; the most authentic representative of Athenian «cleansing», G. N. Hatzidakis (1890/93, 1905); and also the diplomatic official of the Metaxas Dictatorship, G. Seferis (1937). A consequence and corollary of this «rejection» of Solomos' language has been the attempt to expunge or muffle the idiomatic character of his language on the part of his editors, from I. Polylas (1859) down to his latest anthologist-«editor» St. Alexiou (1994). This study attempts to demonstrate the idiomatic character of the language of Solomos and to restore and «legitimize» his genuine dialectalidiomatic linguistic types.
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