ARCHAISMS OF JÁNOS ARANY, THE HUNGARIAN POET, AND THEIR TEACHABILITY

Abstract

With the vocabulary and individual style of János Arany’s folk and historical verses and poems, the author contributed to the reform of the Hungarian literary language and style, and by doing so also to the codification of the Hungarian language. In the paper, the authors briefly describe archaisms, their typology, their function in the literary language, and take their examples from the works of János Arany. Within archaisms, the study also describes a group of archaic concepts, historisms, and their types. The authors also introduce a dictionary of the poetic language of Arany, which was published on the bicentenary of the poet’s birth, and also briefly allude to a few previous attempts to process Arany’s vocabulary. They use the AranySz. (Arany Dictionary) published in 2017 to study archaisms and expressions with important stylistic functions and the educational aspects thereof, mainly in the language of the ballads “A walesi bárdok” (‘The Bards of Wales’) and “Szondi két apródja” (‘The two varlets of Szondi’).