Lexical Variation from the Perspective of Diachronic and Diatopic Dimensions in the Language of the Periodical Press from the Moldavian SSR

Abstract

In this article, we research the state of the language from Bessarabia of the post-annexation period, analyzing the lexical variation of some texts from the Soviet daily papers „Moldova Socialistă” and „Tineretul Moldovei”, in order to identify the diachronic and diatopic variation features. We identify a specific language, polarized, most of the time, around some ideological axes, a vocabulary characterized by clichéd lexical units and structures, by certain stylistic marks, which are variable according to extralinguistic factors, by archaisms and obsolete forms of some words, as well as borrowings from Russian. All these terms disappeared along with the realities they represented or were substituted with the corresponding Romanian equivalents.