ION HELIADE RĂDULESCU’S JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITY: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMANIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE
ION HELIADE RĂDULESCU’S JOURNALISTIC ACTIVITY: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMANIAN LITERARY LANGUAGE

Summary/Abstract: Ion Heliade Rădulescu was one of the most important figures of the Romanian culture in the 19th century. His cultural personality was developed in various directions, being at the same time a poet, an essayist, a philologist, a newspaper editor and also a politician. During his linguistic activity, he was concerned in the process of reinforcing the canons of the Romanian literary language; moreover, he was preoccupied with some concrete aspects about the evolution and development of the language in that historical period. Regarding press, he was the creator of the first Romanian newspapers, which made him the founder of the Romanian journalism. He managed to fulfill his goal towards the standardization of the Romanian literary language by using the newspapers as an educational and informative tool for the cultural expansion of the society at that time. In addition, Heliade defined the language cultivation as a personal mission he had and, therefore, he tried to succeed in this using as many resources as he could, with the press being one of them.

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