Friedrich Schürr`s Recordings from Romagna (1914)

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-7001-7697-8
Verlag: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Sonstiges, Italienisch, Englisch, Band 37, 71 Seiten, JEWELCASE, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 120 mm, Gewicht: 220 g

Reihe: Tondokumente des Phonogrammarchivs

The present series contains a unique collection of 23 Phonogramme featuring various Romagnol dialects. They were recorded between July and August 1914 in Ravenna and Forlì, Italy, by Friedrich Schürr, the Vienna-born Romance scholar. His pioneering research into Romagnol, cut short by the outbreak of World War I, was preceded by comparative diachronic investigations which he conducted during several stays in Italy from 1910 onwards. Primarily aiming at a comprehensive account of stressed vowels in Romagnol dialects, Schürr eventually decided to make use of the phonograph, which enabled the recorded text to be listened to and checked repeatedly. His subsequent application to the Phonogrammarchiv was granted, and an Archivphonograph put at his disposal. The recordings comprise not only Schürr’s 57 so-called Normalsätze (standardised sentences created for his research purposes), but also the names of weekdays and months, individual phrases and proverbs as well as dialect poems or prose. Schürr’s approach of using the phonograph in documenting the dialects of Romagna is the more important since it constitutes the first sound documentation ever made in the field of dialectology as regards Italy. The publication at hand is the result of the fruitful cooperation between the Phonogrammarchiv and the Centro per il Dialetto Romagnolo of the Fondazione Casa di Oriani. Thanks to the latter’s successful efforts, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Ravenna, with its library preserving the legacy of Friedrich Schürr, finally agreed to fund this project. The present multimedia publication consists of an audio CD, a data CD and a booklet (with a substantial contribution by dialectologist Sanzio Balducci). In addition to digital images of the original documentation accompanying the recordings, the data CD also provides scans of Schürr’s publication of 1917 (resulting from his phonographic field research) and relevant correspondence as well as Italian translations of most of the booklet texts, making it a more or less bilingual edition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ghirardini, Christiana

Ghirardini, Cristina

Lechleitner, Gerda

Liebl, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Liebl, Christian
is Curator at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Lechleitner, Gerda
is Curator of the historical collections at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences