The author analyzes the strategies of voter persuasion employed by Janez Janša and Borut Pahor in their campaign speeches during the 2008 Slovenian general elections. She collected, transcribed, and analyzed from the linguistic point of view some of their campaign speeches or their parts. It appears that differences in the persuasive strategies in these speeches to some extent depend on the political party each politician represents and also on their personality. Janša persuades voters with inferences, poise, and personality, while Pahor, on the other hand, largely by playing on their emotions, with personality, and poise.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18321160
This text aims to contribute to the discussion of the lexicographical treatment of proverbs. Discussed are some selected problem areas that, in terms of proverbs, become evident in planning and preparing dictionaries and comparable linguistic resources. Considerations are based on the partial results of the EU-funded research project SprichWort1. In this project, a multilingual proverb database is created and developed.
COBISS.SI-ID: 18742280
Newly created words are a frequent topic of research in modern linguistics. The reason for this is that innovation processes in lexicon are a reflection of dynamic tendencies which occur as a consequence of modern communication requirements. This contribution focuses on the field of sports, using a corpus approach based on the Sketch Engine (SkE). It investigates formations in Slovene with low frequency (e.g. nogometoljubec, karatejka, sankijada). Based on their morphemic structure, it determines whether they are potential neologisms, which are created according to a productive pattern, or nonce formations, which are created according to individual patterns connected with specific text usage, and which as ad-hoc formations do not belong to the productive word-formational patterns. In light of these findings, the question of the combinations of domestic and foreign word-formational elements will be discussed, and consequently also the question of the hybridization of Slovene formations today. The corpus-based approach will enable us to determine whether the analysed material represents a word-formational core or periphery of the lexicon. In order to detect new lexical processes, it is necessary to investigate atypical word-formational processes which open up the creative potential of language. They testify to the dynamic nature of language and to its capability to respond to the different needs of different users in different circumstances.
COBISS.SI-ID: 47702370