The Czech National Revival as a philological adventure
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Requested lectures |
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| Description | During the second phase of the National aweking (approximately the first half of the 19th century), the Czech language underwent a series of successful and unsuccessful orthographic reforms, driven by two agendas: the first, public, concerned reforms of the established orthography as such; the second, non-public, was motivated by pan-Slavic tendencies and the naive Russophilic tendencies of a part of the given revivalist generation. These reforms met strong opposition, since the members of the first revivalist generation (and some of the second as well) preferred to keep intact the older, inherited orthography, already at least three centuries old and traceable back to the 16th, even 15th century. The clash of two groups of revivalists had its unexpected outcomes for both sides. |