International scientific symposium titled “500 Years of Reformation” was taken place on November 9-11th at University of Maribor HQ (inside of research programm P6-0156 Slovenian language, literature and teaching of Slovenian language). 54 participants to submit a 15-minute presentation. Peer-reviewed contributions will be published in a monograph following the symposium. Presentations should cover reformation movement (pre and post reformation developments in Europe) from catholic, protestant or orthodox viewpoint. We welcome contributions that fit into the following scientific fields: linguistic synchrony and diachrony, history of literature, theology, history and social sciences. Working languages of the conference were all Slavic languages, German and English. The conference was divided into language sections.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 11818313Monograph Developing Family Literacy Hugged by Words: Manual for Parents is a result of the research project Hugged by Words, financed by the Ministry of Culture of RS (duration October 2016 till November 2017). Its area is encouragement of family reading or family literacy, a part of reading literacy (essential for successful inclusion of people in the society) and includes intergenerrational reading in all areas of kindergarten work (language, art, society, nature, mathematics, movement) and in all areas of child's development (cognitive, social, emotional, aesthetical, moral-ethical and motivational). Primarily, monograph Hugged by Words was published, on the basis of which a professional manual for parents was prepared. In a simple but proffessional manner the manual for parents contributes to raising awareness of the importance of reading as a lifelong process by connecting a particular area of kindergarten work with early literacy. We define family literacy as various family activities, linked to literacy in the widest sense, when all family generations cooperate, the result being joint learning. With the factors encouraging reading literacy (IFLA, 2006: being surrounded with reading material, reading to the child, the adult as a reading model) various encouragements are presented for building a positive relationship towards reading culture and habits, linked to literacy. Booklet of good practices with the title How to develop family literacy in preschool period is a result of the project. The booklet includes good practices which were implemented in kindergartens included in the project and also some practices from other kindergartens. Scientific monograph Reading literacy in the pre-school education is the result coming at the end of the research-development project. The monograph is the result of studies and adaptations coming from the research part of the project, and as such presents some solutions and improvements in the area of family reading. It also demonstrates the collaborative interdisciplinary nature of relationships between different disciplines, also placing special emphasis on the special needs groups. Reading literacy transcends intergenerrationally, and is a set of competences which develop through the entire life; the awareness of this is the foundation of social development.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 92934657Guest professor at the Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna, in the spring semester of 2017. Lectures on Slovene literary landscapes, intercultural contacts, collekctive symbols and images of foreignness in Slovene literature.
B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university
COBISS.SI-ID: 23162120The article presents a survey of the attitude of the Slovene speakers to the proposed Slovene terms for the borrowed English word selfie in the web portal of linguistic resources Fran. The results of the survey are interpreted using the basic concepts of cognitive linguistics. The study gives an insight into the criteria according to which the speakers evaluate the acceptability of a proposed new word formation. The results show that the respondents show more acceptance of the new word formations which are phonologically, morphologically and semantically transparent. The respondents have a more favorable attitude to the expressions which are formed according to established word-formational processes. This shows the power of analogy, i.e. the greater the number of such analogical structures, the greater the power of the word-formational patterns which are based on an established linguistic scheme. The respondents mostly show a less favorable attitude to those new formations which have a lower morphemic and semantic transparency or which are too long. An important factor for the acceptance is also the phonological form of the word (pronounceability, melodiousness). The phonological closeness of the new formation to other expressions is a negative factor because the sound similarity with other words can distance the new formation from its actual meaning.
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