Aspects of Slovene-English language contact, both in the immigrant context and in Slovenia are addressed. The direct contact of Slovene and English in the case of Slovene Americans is examined from two perspectives: social and cultural on the one hand and linguistic on the other. The emphasis is on language maintenance and shift, the relationship between mother tongue preservation and ethnic awareness, and the impact of extralinguistic factors on selected aspects of the linguistic behavior of the participants in the study.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 17237512The subject is a preparation of five-language idiomatic dictionary for learning foreign languages (SLO, D, H, SLK, CS), for an unified description of collected proverbs – it is a novelty offering data on meaning, lexical environment , lexical usage, variability and pragmatics of particular proverb. The on-line dictionary consists of three parts: (1) five-language paremiologycal data base formed by empirical method of gathering corpus linguistic data; (2) didactic part with material for teacher and student and (3) interactive environment for exchanging data.
D.01 Chairing over/coordinating (international and national) projects
COBISS.SI-ID: 16309000