Eminescu şi clişeele lingvistice
Eminescu and the Linguistic Clichés

Summary/Abstract: Submitted to a critical review, the notion of linguistic cliché reveals an insufficient determination of its content. Moreover, cliché is a rather subjective term which encompasses different fixed constructions repeatedly employed in various communicative situations. If we are to consider the constant negative undertones of clichés, we might assume that such linguistic constructions are unattestable in the works of great poets such as Mihai Eminescu. Hence, there is an inevitable incompatibility between the value of a text (especially literary texts) and the presence of clichés in the economy of such texts. In reality, things are fundamentally different because linguistic clichés are not only a necessary condition for the functioning of any language, but also a means of making texts more distinguishable. The negative undertones of clichés reside either in their incongruity to the structures of an ideal language or in their capacity of representing ideatic requisites of specific historical moments.

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