The book presents research results on dialectal inter-linguistic contacts in the dialectal Slovenske Gorice lexicons from the semantic field of the farm. The vocabulary was obtained on the basis of the questionnaire for the Slovenian Linguistic Atlas, which includes 232 questions. It has to do with words denoting farmhouse, rooms and furnishings in the Slovene farmhouse, farm buildings, farm chores and farm tools. The words were collected in twelve research locations and are presented on the 216 maps. The book compares the Slovenske gorice vocabulary with the vocabulary from Murko's and Pleteršnik's dictionary as well as Dictionary of Slovenian Standard Language. Comparisons and checking made in vocabularies try to present the documentation and semantic of the researched lexemes, Dialectal vocabulary of Slovenske gorice dialect analyzed in the book is almost forgotten by the middle-aged and younger generations, therefore the research is a tiny but important contribution to the preservation of the Slovene linguistic cultural heritage.
COBISS.SI-ID: 83732481
In the last decades there have been cultural paradigms replacements also in the discursive context of the Slovene literature, where the first part of the author’s monograph titled Sodobnost (Contemporariness) emerges from, including the last few decades; her second part Tradicija (Tradition) reaches in time before and after World War II. Both parts uniformly derive from a mutual frame of short forms, from short fiction, feuilleton form and reportage to sermon. The monography brings new discoveries, especially in sense of placing Slovene contemporary short fiction in genre, which generically associates former traditional formal determiners, which enables us to witness the connection of former and contemporary discursive praxis.
COBISS.SI-ID: 85129217
In the last two decades of research into Slovene dialects, the focus has widened from the study of the rules and structures of language use to include the attitude of speakers to dialect and the dialectal, the relationship among dialects themselves and the acceptance of dialects as equal to standard forms of language. These research studies emphasise that dialect, or non-standard speech, is no longer negatively but positively perceived, as the first or even mother tongue into which each speaker is born. We only usually begin to learn the standard language when we enter school. The monograph attempts to partially fill the gap in the analysis of social dialect awareness in the young (also or mostly at the local level), in particular regarding the relationship between standard and non-standard forms in various communicative and situational contexts, taking into account personal language identity. The analysis of primary and high school syllabi and textbook materials shows that dialect is seen as a starting-point for acquiring Standard Slovene; the primary/high school pupil differentiates between standard and non-standard language and masters the contexts that dictate the use of the former or latter, while at the same time, also recognises their local dialect as one form of social varieties of language and the distinctive features of their own/other dialects. Research on a sample of almost 1000 questionnaires demonstrated that at home pupils generally use their local dialect; primary school pupils with locals (non-peers) speak mostly in dialect; pupils with locals (peers) speak mostly in dialect, sometimes also in slang; during Slovene class, pupils most often speak Standard Slovene or an approximation of Standard Slovene; pupils in other subjects use standard and non-standard language almost equally with supradialectal forms; in school pupils speak with classmates and peers mostly in slang; with other school employees pupils tend towards standard speech; pupils believe that they speak their local dialect well or very well; pupils have a positive attitude towards their local dialect, in fact, they are proud of it and enjoy using it.
COBISS.SI-ID: 85048321
The monograph focuses on the question of the Slovene language duality development in the Alpine and Pannonian language area. It presented the work of the most important northeast Styrian authors, including Pleteršnikʼs, Caf ʼs and Miklošič ʼs linguistic work, which made important contributions to the understanding of Eastern Styrian Standard Language and knowledge of its role in the creation of the unified Slovene standard norm in the middle of the 19th century. Important new scientific knowledge: in the northeast of Styria was in the 18th and 19th century present desire for linguistic autonomy, ie. the independence of the Central Slovene language and Kajkavian language, so the older Riglerʼs opinion about "language separatism" was harsh - the monograph supplements and corrects this opinion due to the current knowledge and understanding of the history of the Slovene language.
COBISS.SI-ID: 84988673
The scientific monograph Ecocriticism and Literary Depictions of Nature first explains theoretical standpoints of ecocriticism and related disciplines, such as ecofeminism, cultural ecology and the ecological aesthetics of nature, and then continues with the terminological apparatus of ecocriticism, the cultural-environmental functional model of literature and elements of eco-critical and ecofeminist analysis of literary works. The applicative part contains written interpretations of representations and transformations of nature/the environment in selected narrative prose by Slovene male and female writers from the second half of the 19th to the mid-20th century. tj. pri Franu Erjavcu, Janezu Mencingerju, Josipu Stritarju, Pavlini Pajk, Ivanu Tavčarju, Ivanu Cankarju, Srečku Kosovelu, Miranu Jarcu, Vladimirju Bartolu, Prežihovem Vorancu in Ivanu Potrču.
COBISS.SI-ID: 85308929