FORMULE DE ADRESARE ÎN EPITAFURILE DIN CIMITIRUL VESEL
FORMS OF ADDRESS IN THE EPITAPHS OF THE MERRY CEMETERY

Summary/Abstract: The culture of Maramureş enriches the Romanian folklore with a large number of traditional texts, composed to be used at different types of events that take place during someone’s life. Thus, these poetic works, from the incantations uttered at a child’s birth to the humorous shouts or orations at a wedding ceremony or the prayers of forgiveness at a death watch or burial, represent greetings, life stories of the main person implied in the event, the village elders’ advice for those who are young and not initiated yet, mockery words. They are poetic creations that comprehend in verses elements of the direct speech.The traditional texts, since they are written in verse, affect negatively, to a relatively large extent, the elements specific to an authentic oral communication, for the prosodic elements make the use of language undergo the form. However, we found it necessary to list and describe the forms of address used in the epitaphs from the Merry Cemetery, Săpânța, as they stand for the unbroken history of a speech community, starting with the year 1935 (when the sculptor Stan Ioan Pătraș inscribed the first epitaph) and up to the present. The texts of the epitaphs will be herein edited according to the model found in the two corpora included in our reasearch: Bruno Mazzoni, Il iscrizioni parlanti del cimitero di Săpânța, and Mihali Nicoară, Săpânța (fotoalbum).

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