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Езиковата програма на Чешкото възраждане – между емоциите и познанието
The language program of Czech revival – between emotions and knowledge

Author(s): Slaveya Dimitrova
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Social history, Czech Literature, Western Slavic Languages, Philology
Published by: Софийски университет »Св. Климент Охридски«
Keywords: language program; Czech revival; language; emotions

Summary/Abstract: The text concentrates on the language program of the Czech National Revival. Special attention is paid to the typical for the period overlapping between the terms “language” and “people” and thus to preserved in language cultural, literary, state and emotional memory that should be revived for the future. The notion of language in this case is perceived as a concept that contains and summarizes the program of the National Revival. During the first quarter of the 19th century in Czech environment, namely language becomes a measure of the ethical and the aesthetic, of the “own” and the “foreign”, of the “high” and the “low”.