Orality and Originality
Orality and Originality

Summary/Abstract: Ion Creangă’s great art consists in his relation to the language. The expression that best characterizes this oral discourse is “to spill the beans/to give oneself away” (“a-l lua gura pe dinainte”). Creangă creates a world and the instrument of his creation is the word itself, the speech. Elements as orality, dialogue, dynamism, redundancies, puns, paroemiological constructions etc. are marks of his originality.

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