Presentation of the origins, territory of development and decline of the Prekmurje standard language and its transformation into a dialect. Importance of the achievement: publication in a prestigious literary collection Opera Slavica Budapestinensia, Linguae Slavicae, Budapest. The monograph presents the development of Slovenia’s Prekmurje standard language within the Pannonian language space while in close contact with Hungarian language that played a dominant role in the region. The monograph is written in Hungarian and is the first to introduce Hungarian readership to the story of interaction of Slovene and Hungarian languages, i.e. coexistence of two literary norms in the Hungarian state and monarchy prior to the end of WWI. At the same time, it provides well-grounded arguments against non-historic vedic theories about the Prekmurje language.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18293000
The monograph discusses language policy and planning in the Republic of Slovenia and the issues regarding the use of Slovene in literature and culture. The monograph is very important for a better understanding of the role that Slovene plays in the Slovenia’s tertiary education and development of the country’s scientific and professional terminology. It is particularly important for proliferation of the idea that Slovene must remain the language of instruction in Slovenia’s tertiary education system and it should not be completely replaced with a surrogate such as English. Finally, the monograph influences the development of positive language policies in Slovenia as well as promotes Slovene language as the primary study language at the university level.
COBISS.SI-ID: 88400385
The article focuses on Slovene-English language contact in North America. The general linguistic situation in Slovene Canadian communitiy (Vancouver) is described, emphasizing the relationship between the degree of mother tongue/heritage language maintenace of the immigrants and their descendants on the one hand and their sense of ethnic identity on the other. The historical, social and cultural aspects of Slovene immigration to the Canada are addressed. This is followed by a detailed linguistic analysis of the data obtained through tape-recorded interviews from individual informants belonging to three generations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23569416
This article argues for the inclusion of univerbation into the Slovene system of word formation, because the term explains certain categories of complex words that have so far received relatively little attention despite their increased use. The Slovene words poenobesedenje and poenobesedenka are proposed as replacements for the borrowings univerbizacija and univerbat in order to fill gaps in Slovene terminology.
COBISS.SI-ID: 24038408
Prof. dr. Silvija Borovnik wrote eighteen discussions which are collected in the scientific monograph. Her work refers to: a) the research of Slovenian female writers from the Nineteenth Century on b) the work of prose from individually selected writers out of the Slovenian literary canon, c) the Slovenian- Austrian literary contacts, the intercultural perspectives of Slovenian literature in Carinthia and the bilingualism of Slovenian literature in Austria. The discussions about the multuculturalism, interculturalism and bilingualism in Slovenian prose are particulary innovative.
COBISS.SI-ID: 68860929
Cultural studies have shown that verbal depictions of non-Germanic nations in the AustroHungarian Empire in the dominant German discourse demand more investigative research which would expose the myth of a multicultural and supranational Austria-Hungary. German cultural colonialism has constructed negative, even hostile images of the foreign/the other. This article examines Bartsch's German nationalist novel Das Deutsche Lied and its depictions of Slovenes as foreign/other, as well as asymmetric German-Slovene biculturalism in Lower Styria in the period of ethnic friction and the unrelenting Germanization prior to World War I.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23436040
The article presents the research findings on the use of various social varieties of the Slovenian language, i. e. Standard and Non-standard language, by the students studying Slovenian language and literature in Maribor. A brief introduction is followed by a description of language culture and its efforts to improve the subject matter and the importance of the norm in a language with rich social language varieties use. The research indicates the largely positive attitude of young people to the use of their own dialect in different language situations thus shifting the society's traditionally negative attitude towards the use of dialectal language, perceiving it as a value and as an indicator of one%s personal and national identity. General dialectal characteristics are distinguished in non-formal communication and the informants' switching between the Standard language and the dialect in non-formal communication is a rare occurance, showing that the environment of schooling and the field of study are not prevailing influence factors in choosing a specific social language variety.
COBISS.SI-ID: 24291080
In writing this monograph, and in trying to air modern trends in education and outlining the future, we used two principles, which could be summarized as follows: (1) From fundamental to applicative knowledge. In short, from humanistic social science, to science and technology. Philosophical foundations were taken as a basis on which general didactic concepts were explained and connected to sociological and psychological laws as cornerstones of modern educational systems (2) From theory to practice. From theoretical basis - where fundamental knowledge and basic laws are defined - to practical solutions; instructions for use.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23231752
According to semiotics, a text is a complex linguistic sign examined from semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic points of view. The latter includes the language user, as (s)he is the only one to whom the signifier evokes the signified and vice versa. This should also be taken into consideration in the analysis of cohesive-connective language devices as simple signs that structure a text and show vibrations of language with time, space, and man.
COBISS.SI-ID: 21759496
The monograph deals with the discursive aspect of parenthesis in two types of public discourse: journalistic and parliamentary discourse. Parenthesis is defined as a phenomenon of discourse, based on tripartite connection between the trigger of parenthesis, parenthesis itself, and context. According to the motivational criterion (i. e. the trigger of parenthesis as an element from within the text or from outside the text), parenthesis is classified into the following two types: internal parenthesis or endoparenthesis and external parenthesis or exoparenthesis. Parenthesis maintains referential/thematic continuity in discourse structure. At the micro-discoursive level, parenthesis is connected with the micro-theme of discourse: the anaphora in parenthesis retrieves the micro-discoursive (local) referent; at the macro-discoursive level, parenthesis is connected with the macro-theme of discourse: the anaphora in parenthesis retrieves the macro-discoursive (global) referent. The connection of parenthesis at the micro-/macro-level of discourse structure supports the claim that parenthesis operates at the level of discourse: at the micro-level, i.e. at the level of discourse unit, or at the macro-level, i.e. at the level of discourse as a whole.
COBISS.SI-ID: 67473665