Stilul publicistic în presa bănățeană (în prima jumătate a secolului al XX-lea)
The Journalistic style in the Banat press

Summary/Abstract: Until the Great Union, the Romanian journalistic landscape in Banat is quite rich (political newspaper, supposedly independent newspapers, workers' and anti-socialist publications, pedagogical magazines, village newspapers, religious publications, women's newspapers), sending an open or veiled message for unity. To all Romanians and pleading, resolutely, for the emancipation of the Romanian nation through culture and education, the only ones able to ensure its natural access to all the most important functions in this province. Carrying some linguistic innovations, the press makes a welcome contribution to the enrichment of vocabulary, the journalistic style being organically framed to the functional style, outlined in the 19th century. We full agree with the assertion of the Banat scholar George Cătană, according to which the press to fulfill a historical mission, transforming itself into a real “university for the people”. As such, in the Banat press from the end of the 19th century and from the beginning of the 20th century, there is a publicist style of popular orientation, with an openly confessed preference for the spoken language. The choice of the people of Banat for an authentic Romanian language meant, in fact, their attachment to the literally language, which gradually acquired a unitary character.

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