Influence of Banat Subdialects on Romanian Novel of Vojvodina

Abstract

Literary language used in Vojvodina, in relation to the literary language spoken in Romania, has its specificity due to dialectal base and the conditions under which formed. It is divided into regions and and includes local and regional lexical features, and idioms commonly used by locals. Writers of Vojvodina originating from different Romanian dialects presented in this space and the specifics of the language broadly occupied linguist Radu Flora. This research shows that the Romanian population from Banat is based on the three dialectal layers: Banat, Oltenia and Ardeal. In Transylvanian villages, dialect spoken by population is closer to Romanian literary language than the one used in authentic villages from Banat. Therefore, the language of artistic works, used by writers in Vojvodina is not uniform, it differs depending on the writer's origin. This paper draws attention towards possible division of the novels in Vojvodina, depending on the period of publication: the traditional, neotraditional and modern novel (this includes so-called "turning point" for modernism), explaining the language facts used in these novels.

Keywords

• subdialects from Banat
• Romanian novel of Vojvodina
• Romanian literature
• traditionalism
• neo-traditionalism
• modernism