Within the framework of the social-semiotic approach of the Sydney School (Martin and Rose 2008), this paper examines the genre characteristics of selected short descriptive narrative hagiographic texts published in three prominent Slovene hagiographic collections from 19th century – Shivlenje Svetnikov in Prestavni Godovi (1828–1829) by Franc Veriti, Djanje Svetnikov Božjih in razlaganje prestavnih praznikov ali svetkov (1853–1854) by Anton Martin Slomšek, and Življenje svetnikov in svetnic Božjih (1866–1874) by Jožef Rogač and Matija Torkar. Through a multi-level analysis, the study reveals the macrostructural textual organization, identifies both mandatory and optional structural segments, defines contextual variables and the appraisal system. This confirms the social purpose of the examined hagiographies, which is to provide significance and convey Christian principles by presenting the life of holy individuals, with the intention of preserving and shaping relationships on both broader and narrower social levels.
The present paper focuses on the literary type called femme fragile at the turn of the 20th century. In this period, the femme fragile both in visual arts and in literature experiences a rich development and some changes. She is shaped in accordance with the aesthetic guidelines of decadence, the secession and symbolism; she echoes medical and other discourses about femininity, male views of the female and the fear of increasing female independence. The analysis of the femme fragile in selected works of Slovene modernism reveals that the authors adjusted her also to social circumstances. The Slovene femme fragile is not a representative of the aristocracy. She originates from the bourgeois, or even rural, environment, and her origins might reach as far as to the folklore Fair or Lepa Vida.
The article draws on criminological theories and seeks to discover what different interpretations of the origins of crime can tell us about Slovenian crime fiction. The article introduces the basic characteristics of classical, positivist, interactionist and conflict criminological explanations of crime. This is folowed by the analysis of the poetics of murder in popular Slovenian crime fiction by Avgust Demšar and Tadej Golob from the perspectives of criminological theories. We find that standard continuous features appear in the crime fiction of both writers. Classical and positivist poetics of murder predominate, attributing the causes of crime to human opportunism and the individual’s pathological nature, respectively. The discussed crime novels are also characterised by the narrative red herring, or the semantic gap derived from deceiving detective clues, between the novelistic discourse of crime and the discourse of crime derived from the poetics of individual murders.
The topic of the paper is Old Church Slavonic terms from the semantic fields winegrowing and winemaking. Examples of the mentioned terms are taken from Old Church Slavonic literary monuments and are further in the study etymologized. The words documented in Old Church Slavonic texts allow for an accurate picture of how the ancestors of contemporary Slavs cultivated grapes, how they produced wine, and which types of wine they knew and consumed. On the one hand, the origin of the discussed terms attests to the antiqueness of Slavic viniculture, while on the other hand, it provides insight into how terminological systems are formed and developed.
The local speech of three Bistricas – Gornja, Srednja and Dolnja – is classified as the southern variant (or dialect variant of Dólinsko) of the Prekmurje dialect of the Pannonian dialect group, but in some respects, it is closer to the speeches of Prlekija and Medžimurje dialects than to the neighbouring speeches of Dólinsko. The material-supported paper deals with those phonological, morphological, and verbal phenomena in the local speech of the three Bistricas, which are distinctive in relation to nearby local speeches and which linguists have too often generalized to the entire Prekmurje dialect. A list of uninhabited-area names of Gornja, Srednja and Dolnja Bistrica has also been added.
This paper presents the findings of an analysis of English and Macedonian causal conjunctions based on samples of literary texts in both languages and their published translations. In both languages there are conjunctions used exclusively to indicate causality between two clauses (such as because and бидејќи ‘because’), but there are also conjunctions typically used to indicate other relations (such as temporality in the case of since and штом ‘as soon as’, ‘once’) which have developed a causal interpretation over time. The coordinating conjunctions and in English and и ‘and’ in Macedonian can also have a causal interpretation developed by means of implicature (Lyons 1995: 162–163, 286–287) or inferential enrichment (Mauri & Auwera 2012: 383–384).
The paper discusses ontological metaphors with the target domain CONSCIENCE. Its research is based on the tenets and methodology of Conceptual Metaphor Theory. The analyzed material is represented by a corpus of aphorisms about conscience, obtained by the method of continuous sampling based on data from online compendiums of aphorisms. It is argued that an abstract ethical entity is conceptualized in relation to knowledge about basic concrete things from central life experience. The main conceptual metaphors for the conceptualization of the analyzed ethical concept are “Conscience is a human or God” and “Conscience is a thing”, which have elaborations and extensions in various contexts.
In the secularised literary treatment of short narrative texts, the biblical and hagiographical references that will be discussed in this paper appear, inter alia, in the form of allusive implicit references to persons or events from the biblical and hagiographical traditions, due to the educational-didactic concept of the 19th century, when the Besednik newspaper began to appear as a supplement to the publications issued by the Mohorjeva družba publishing company. An examination and analysis of the short narrative texts of the Besednik newspaper, subtitled as “a short and informative newspaper for the Slovene people” published in Klagenfurt between 1869 and 1878 revealed that allusions to biblical and hagiographical contexts appear as quotation figures in the form of intertextual references.
The first part of the research presents the works of one of the greatest contemporary Russian writers, Mikhail Afanisiejvich Bulgakov while further on focusing on the analysis of intertextual devices that Bulgakov uses to establish intertextual connections between his first novel The White Guard and the apocalyptic Book of Revelation in the only Slovene translation by Marjan Poljanec (1973). The numerous allusions and direct quotes from the Book of Revelation convey a special meaning attributed to the apocalyptic text in Bulgakov’s masterpiece. The present paper is interested in the extent, if there is any, to which the intertextual elements are preserved in the Slovene translation and which strategies Poljanec used to preserve them.
The article focuses on the theoretical and practical aspects of intralingual translation, which refers to translation within one national language on the older language-modern language time axis. The translation strategies, which can be seen from the accompanying words to the existing intralingual translations of older Slovenian texts from the 10th and 16th centuries, have been verified and identified on the basis of a comparative analysis of selected source texts (Brižinski spomeniki/Monumenta Frisingensia, Trubar’s Abecednik/Alphabet and Cerkveni red/Church Order) with their translations into contemporary Standard Slovene.
The article deals with the issue of multiculturalism and interculturality in selected works by contemporary Slovenian female writers. It takes into account a tendency that has been very prominent in literary historical research in recent years, namely the need to take into account the aspect of crossing and transgressing borders and the hibridity of writers’ identities when analysing literary works. Various researchers believe that it is necessary to foster an open research attitude towards everything that has been materially and thematically, as well as linguistically different, but at the same time cohesive in Slovenian literary history. The article is based on the conviction that Slovenian literary texts are understood differently in an intercultural context and establish an interesting intertextual dialogue with many other languages and cultures.
As a constantly developing ability of an individual, reading literacy is key to the understanding, critical evaluation and use of written information, and is the basis for all other types of literacy when acquiring a native or non-native (second or foreign) language. While all the components of reading literacy are important, this paper emphasizes the 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th components. Selected originally Slovene works of fiction (Moj prijatelj je drugačen; Ali te lahko objamem močno?) are analyzed from a cross-cultural and linguistic points of view, taking into consideration basic information about the works themselves through the prism of didactic orientations, and with a critical view of the didactic instruments prepared by the authors themselves.
The present paper reflects on the literary work of selected contemporary Slovenian female essayists, with special focus on their thematic and stylistic characteristics. It should be noted that not much research has been done focusing on the literary work of contemporary Slovenian female writers, although they have written and still write across a variety of genres. The theoretical part of the article presents the findings and studies of Denis Poniž, Janko Kos and Miran Štuhec, with respective references, especially the historical context of the European and Slovenian essay and essayistic narrative prose. The paper then focuses on the essays of Slovenian female authors from 1993 to the present, also highlighting reflections on selected German, Polish, Russian and American female essayists. This is followed by an overview of the essays by selected authors, namely the essay collections Slovenija, moja Afrika (1993) by Silvia Borovnik, Tek na mestu (2017) by Renata Salecl, Vseživo (2017) by Urša Zabukovec and Naredite Ameriko spet oblavladljivo (2018) by Katja Perat, which highlights essayist thought as well as thematic and stylistic similarities and differences.
The article presents a corpus study of the use of the term green in the context of environmental changes compared to its general use. The main part of the article presents a corpus analysis of the word green using the Gigafida 2.0 corpus and the Termania terminological source. The research shows that in the Gigafida 2.0 corpus, the strongest collocations containing the adjective green with the meaning of environmental protection refer to political parties and activities (green coalition, green alternative) and terms related to economy and tourism (green energy, green destination, green economy). Interestingly, the popular term green transition is not among the strongest collocations. We assume this is due to this expression becoming more established in the period no longer covered by the Gigafida 2.0 corpus.
The article discusses the manuscript Domovina, ország (deržáva), práva i dúžnosti purgarov (Homeland, State, Rights and Duties of Citizens). Bertalan Koczuván (Kocuvan), a schoolteacher from Ižakovci, began writing it in 1879/80. This local studies textbook (focusing on local studies and citizens’ duties) was intended for teaching children in the local school. Unfortunately, it remaines unfinished. The manuscript consists of twenty-six calligraphy pages, and is linguistically a supra-dialect as it attempts to follow the norms of uniform literary Slovene (i.e. novoslovenski knjižni jezik). The script is slovenica (Slovene alphabet), with a few spellings of sibilants (c, z, s; č, ž, š) in ogrica (Hungarian alphabet).
The purpose of the paper is to show the linguistic image of poverty and wealth through the prism of phraseological material from the Slovenian language The research material will be classified into two large groups, namely poverty and wealth, each of which is further divided into subgroups based on semantic analysis. The sociological view of both phenomena supports the initial hypothesis being that poverty is reflected in idioms associated with a lack of money, food, clothing, loss of home, debt and livelihood, while wealth is associated with birth rights, large amounts of money, well-being and a wasteful life-style.
The article focuses on different forms of intertextuality in children’s literature. To link the intellectual elements, one needs to possess the knowledge of canonical texts. Without this, contemporary literary texts that contain such elements might not function well. Also, lack of knowledge of the source text can result in part of the story being lost. The present article demonstrates different intertextual connections on the example of selected stories involving the metamorphosis of a frog as the main literary and (apart from Lila Prap) also the title character. The source text is The Frog Prince or Iron Henry by Brothers Grimm, while the works studied are Saša Vegri’s Jure kvak kvak (George Croak, Croak), Lila Prap’s 1001 pravljica (1001 Stories), Bina Štampe Žmavc’s O žabi in princu (About a Frog and a Prince) and Andrej Rozman Roza’s O začaranem žabcu (About the Enchanted Frog).
We develop an original method of teaching literature, exemplary for the problem-based teaching of Slovenian in grammar schools, called the method of solving literary problems. New methods and approaches in literature class require different verification and assessment of knowledge. We turn the classic school essay into a problem-based one, and determine the characteristics of the structure, the proportions of the final grade and the taxonomy of the problem-based essay.
