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 scientific monography Cognitive science in education and alternative teaching strategies (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2017) contains the results of a research programme. They are published in the Part II of the monography: Reading in the Pedagogical Concept 1:1 (pages from 99 – 162), which is divided in to four chapters. The chapter Digital Natives or Who and What is Homo Zappiensis is focused on positive and negative effects of long-term activities in front of a computer screen and in is defining reading curriculum for Homo Zappiens generation. Chapter 10 is introducing the structural elements of linear text reading process. The Chapter 11 is focused in to the online informational, interpretive and displayable texts and is defining the structural elements of such reading. In this context, it introduces the role of prior knowledge, the role of the inferential reasoning process and the role of metacognitive/self-regulating process in understanding PDF's, closed hypertexts and open hypertexts (World Wide Web). The Chapter 12 introduces the results of current research on the topic of individual differences in the process of learning from E-textbook/E-material and concludes in didactic reflections about reading curriculum for the generation of digital natives.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23231752
This article addresses the issue of mother tongue retention in the Slovene Canadian community of Vancouver. A brief social and historical profile of the community is followed by a description of the general linguistic situation, based on the data collected through questionnaires and participant observation. The results show substantial intergenerational variation in terms of the immigrants' language use and language attitudes and point in the direction of a relatively rapid shift from Slovene to English, but not to the weakening of their sense of ethnic identity. The focus then shifts to the linguistic aspects of Slovene-English language contact themselves. In addition to interference phenomena in the immigrants' language such as borrowing from English and Slovene-English code switching, special attention is paid to the presence of dialect or standard features in their mother tongue. Lexis in particular is interesting as it shows traces of other languages. Next, we try to identify the most significant factors which affect the immigrants' choice between Slovene and English in various contexts as well as their use of either dialect or standard in Slovene.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23569416
An academic monograph by Associate Professor Dr. Silvija Borovnik, deals with issuea of multiculturality in contemporary and recent historical works of Slovenia literature. In the first and more analytical section of the monograph, Borovnik focuses on modern works of literature written by Drago Jančar and Aleš Debeljak. In their literary works, these two authora often descrobed the historical formation of Slovenian identity as well as the intercultural contact between Slovenia and other nations and cultures, especially in the context of the European Union. Both Jančar and Debeljak were proponents of openness and respect for diversity. Borovnik than turns to images of interculturality in the literary works of Josip Osti, Brina Svit, Erica Johnson Debeljak, Maja Haderlap, Florjan Lipuš, Peter Handke, Alma Karlin and Prežihov Voranc. In the second part of the academic monograph, the author turns to the issue of the use of Slovenian language of instruction at Slovenian universities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 93062657