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Besedilna matrica in struktura vzorca besedila problem – rešitev ter možnost njune uporabe pri analizi besedil v šolski praksi
Authors: Starc Sonja
Published: September 2024

The article gives an insight into the structure of text, as theoretically founded by Michael Hoey, which is also applied to some Slovene examples. Following the analysis of high school final Matura exams in Slovene as a Second Language, the author aims to establish possible ways of using a textual matrix and a schematic illustration of the problem-solution text type in schools when testing textual balance, demonstrating an interdependent relation between the text type intended for achieving a goal, i.e. instructions, and the realisation of the problem-solution text type.
Eksistencialistična drama
Authors: Troha Gašper
Published: September 2024

The article deals with playwriting, as developed in France during the Second World War and the decade that followed, which was closely related to the philosophy of existentialism. After a brief overview of some definitions of existentialist drama, a new definition of the genre is made with the help of Szondi’s theses and the actant model by Anna Ubersfeld, whose basis is the image of its actant model. In it, an opposition pair is missing which is concealed by the existentialist drama with the introduction of the situation of danger – a subject ascribes the oppositional role to certain dramatic personae or two independent and incomplete actant models collide. This definition is tested on the plays by Sartre and Camus, and some Slovene playwrights (Primož Kozak, Marjan Rožanc and Drago Jančar). The latter illustrate the specific features of Slovene existentialist drama, which is a result of the social role played by playwriting in the period between 1945 and 1990.
Tipologija esejev Iztoka Geistra
Authors: Tucovič Vladka
Published: September 2024

The essay as an “open form” is genologically hard to determine due to its genre hybridity. Its classification seems even more difficult with its topics diverging from the generally predominant thematic domain of post-war Slovene essay writing, placed, according to Miran Štuhec (2003: 7), in the triangle of “humans – literature – nation”. In the case of essays on nature by Iztok Geister, the article concludes that a typological approach to the corpus of essays in seven books by Geister is possible on the basis of researching linguistic style or narrative features of the essays on nature, from which follows that his essays can be classified as journalistic, popular-science and “artistic” essays, while the latter can be further divided into poetic and (thematically more accurate) travel essays.
Širjenje pogovornega jezika in umikanje narečja kot značilna težnja sodobne poljščine
Authors: Warchala Jacek
Published: September 2024

The article discusses a phenomenon of the expansion of colloquial discourse (in both spoken and written form) in modern Polish. It describes the political and socio-economic background of this process, presents factors enabling or advancing it, and analyses its consequences. The expansion of colloquial language is changing the entire composition of language variation in Polish. Its consequences are the process of dialect extinction, increasing significance of colloquial language (the establishment of the prevailing dichotomy spoken discourse – written discourse), and the marginalisation of standard language as a link between the dichotomy standard language – dialects (the establishment of the prevalent and non-expressive dichotomy general (normative) language – colloquial language).
Literarno dogajanje na Slovaškem v šestdesetih letih
Authors: Šramel Špela
Published: September 2024

The ‘sixties of the twentieth century in Slovak literature signify a temporary warming and a great creative achievement of young writers. Surpassing the schematic model of Socialist realism in the direction of thematic and expressive differentiation conditions, enables and, at the same time, hinders social and political changes, which testifies to the integration of literature in the social context. The article analyses the role played by literary journals and literary reviews during this period, and makes a comparison with the situation in Slovenia. A special treatment of the first prose work by Ján Johanides Zasebnost (Privacy in English) is made in which the author applies basic initiatives of modernism and existentialism, making innovative use of the narrative technique typical of the new French novel. In conclusion, the present image of literature from the ‘sixties of the twentieth century is examined.
Vojko Gorjanc, Korpus FidaPLUS: nova generacija slovenskega referenčnega korpusa
Authors: Arhar Špela
Published: September 2024

The article presents the FidaPLUS corpus, an upgrade of the first Slovene reference corpusFida. FidaPLUS is an extensive collection of electronic texts which represents a balanced sample of heterogeneous contemporary texts in Slovene. In addition, the corpus is accompanied by a powerful, information-based concordancer, freely available for general use on the internet. The article focuses on the presentation of the improvements made to the new reference corpus, i.e. the improved lemmatization of corpus texts, new statistical methods for the collocator search, an upgrade of the concordancer interface, and the creation of an information network needed for the corpus analysis by the user. Information concerning the very structure of the corpus is also provided, since comprehension of the corpus composition is vital for the interpretation of language information. An attempt is also made to place the new corpus within the Slovene research area as a significant milestone not only for corpus studies, but for linguistics in general.
Tipologija turističnih besedil s poudarkom na turističnooglaševalskih besedilih
Authors: Mikolič Vesna
Published: September 2024

Since tourism covers a number of both economic as well as non-economic activities, there is also a great variety of tourist texts. When a corpus of tourist texts was created as part of “Multilingual Corpus of Tourist Texts: Information Source and Analytical Database of Natural and Cultural Heritage” research project, a typology of tourist text types was made according to the following criteria: communicative purpose, reference, channel and medium. The purpose of the text is shown as a vital criterion particularly when defining tourist advertising texts, since what is especially important for the analysis of the used linguistic means is a definition of these texts as texts with a pronounced communicative instructive function.
Uporništvo ženskih likov v prozi Zofke Kveder
Authors: Borovnik Silvija
Published: September 2024

Zofka Kveder is still considered the first Slovene writer-intellectual, who entered the Slovene literary scene at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century. Recent literary-historical studies (by Silvija Borovnik, Zvonko Kovač, Katja Mihurko Poniž) point out that at the time when engagement in literature was a male domain, not to say almost privilege, she was a bold, independent and innovative personality. Resolutely determined to find her own place in the professional world, though there was hardly any place left for women, she left home, which did not provide any safety or warmth, and first found employment. Then, without any help from her parents, she sought education in Trieste, and later at the universities in Zurich and Prague. Alongside her studies she began to develop her writing. When a few years ago I took a serious interest in literature, written by Slovene female authors, I came to realise that all beginnings and all new paths, developed by female writers and poets in the 20th century, point to Zofka Kveder. Other literary theoreticians also point out that it was Zofka Kveder herself who succeeded in gaining recognition in the Slovene, Czech and Croatian literary worlds by writing and publishing in four languages.
Domači prijatelj Zofke Kveder
Authors: Tucovič Vladka
Published: September 2024

In 1904 in Prague the Czech manufacturer František Vydra began to publish a literary newspaper in Slovene entitled Domači prijatelj (1904–1915). Its first and only editor was Zofka Kveder (1878–1926), who, in addition to publishing original prose and poetry by renowned Slovene writers such as Ivan Cankar, Anton Aškerc, Ksaver Meško and the like, also drew in authors who had not yet won recognition at the time, for example Ivan Lah, Prežihov Voranc, France Bevk, Stanko Majcen and many others. The Domači prijatelj newspaper was only delivered for free to those who ordered František Vydra’s corn coffee. Otherwise, it could be neither bought nor was it possible to subscribe to it. The editor commented on many contributions written by the beginners and also answered letters in a section Listnica uredništva (Editor’s Portfolio in English), where her supervising qualities found expression, with this section becoming one of the most prominent in Domači prijatelj.
Kersnikovo ustvarjalno sodelovanje z Jurčičem
Authors: Kocijan Gregor
Published: September 2024

Poglavje iz monografije o Janku Kersniku obravnava Kersnikovo ustvarjalno sodelovanje z Josipom Jurčičem. Srečala sta se leta 1867, ko je bil Janko še dijak, medtem ko je bil Jurčič že literarno uveljavljena osebnost, saj je imel za seboj Jurija Kozjaka, Domna in Desetega brata. Njuno prijateljstvo se je poglabljalo, ko sta se srečevala na Dunaju, največ pri Stritarju. Še bolj se je utrdilo, ko je Jurčič urejeval Slovenski narod in je Kersnik začel pisati feljtone (Muhasta pisma, Nedeljska pisma, Pisma iz Gradca, 1873-1874) in uvodnike (1875). Kersnik je bil ves čas službovanja in prebivanja v Ljubljani član Jurčičevega omizja. Ne vemo, v kolikšni meri je Jurčič vplival na mladega prozaista, ko se je ta lotil svojega prvega večjega dela – Na Žerinjah, toda zagotovo mu je veliko pomagal s tem, da je pripoved objavil v Slovenski knjižnici 1876. Plod njunega skupnega snovanja je bila enodejanka “Berite Novice” (1878), a najpomembnejše skupno delo je bil roman Rokovnjači (1881): Jurčič je napisal enajst poglavij, Kersnik trinajst. Pri tem romanu se je pokazala idejno-pripovedna in slogovna uglašenost med pisateljema.&
Raba prihodnjika za uresničena pretekla dejanja: retorični prijem »pogled naprej« v slovenščini in v nekaterih drugih jezikih
Authors: Miklič Tjaša
Published: September 2024

The paper focuses on the specific textual function of the Slovene future tense in the rhetorical technique »flash-forward« (Slovene: pogled naprej, French: prolepse). In various languages this »non-temporal« function is undertaken – along with the context – by various means of expression that primarily serve to convey other functions, above all suggesting »posterior« actions or modality (future, conditional, temporal and modal periphrases, etc.). It seems that the use of the Slovene future tense for indicating these kinds of completed past actions is in some contexts not only natural but even irreplaceable, while in other contexts, probably following the example of other languages, the use is gradually establishing itself as a more or less acceptable option.
Bohoričev postopek prirejanja Melanchtonove skladnje
Authors: Ahačič Kozma
Published: September 2024

Breda Pogorelec was the first to accurately identify Melanchthon’s model in the chapter on syntax by Adam Bohorič. The paper describes the way in which Bohorič wrote the chapter on syntax in his grammar on the basis of this model.
Upodobitve jedi in jedcev v slovenskem leposlovju
Authors: Mihurko Poniž Katja
Published: September 2024

The article presents the way in which Slovene writers have included portrayals of food and eaters in their work, and the role of these images in Slovene literature. Portrayals of food and everything connected with it have appeared in literature since its very beginnings. From antiquity onwards, we can find descriptions of opulent banquets or images of shortages caused by war, natural disaster or personal tragedy. However, food and those who eat it do not appear just as a colourful part of the story line, but rather these descriptions often have a metaphorical function. Often it is a means for authors to assert their critical attitude towards society. In Slovene literature we meet with the depiction of an abundance of food, which represents an allegory of the satisfied life (Vodnik, Govekar, Kveder, Javoršek), but also disturbing images of starvation and humiliation in the struggle for one’s daily bread (Tavčar, Kersnik, Cankar, Voranc, Kranjec). Certain authors take food only as a point of departure, on the basis of which to expound their world view or characterize their literary figures (Valjavec, Kraigher, Izidor Cankar).
Minimalni frazemi v slovenščini
Authors: Babič Saša
Published: September 2024

The article encompasses a brief examination of the concept of minimal phraseological units, with a more detailed treatment of verb+preposition phrases. From a structural point of view, we question the classification of minimal phraseological units amongst phrases. Where is the border between the word and the phrase? Can a phraseological unit be made up of just one stressed and one clitic word, i.e., one lexical and one non-lexical unit? In the article we argue for the classification of minimal phraseological units in phraseology in the narrow sense. This is in contrast to some phraseologists who do not classify certain phrases with all of the characteristics of phraseological units, and which are words from a phonetic point of view, in phraseology in the narrow sense. In the second part there is a detailed treatment of minimal phraseological units with the structure verb+preposition.
Raziskovanja življenjskih zgodb v slovenski etnologiji: kaj je novega na tem področju po letu 1990
Authors: Čebulj Sajko Breda
Published: September 2024

Subsequent to an earlier review of ethnological activity in the field of life stories (Čebulj Sajko 1999: 108–151) the present article attempts to compensate for the lack of research in this area over the last decade and a half. Without any pretentions to undertaking deep analyses or surveying related scientific disciplines, the article simply seeks to make the reader familiar with these kinds of »activities« during the treated period on the basis of selected outstanding works on this theme. In order for the reader to better understand the current situation the article also touches upon the past role of life stories in ethnology. With the concluding thoughts the author points out (some) open questions in connection with the autobiographical theme. Through the confrontation of the position of the speaker/listener, and by acknowledging the emotions of them both, the author indicates the possibilities for new approaches to the research and description of autobiographical material.
Spomini Franka Javha Kerna: primer slovenske izseljenske avtobiografije v ZDA
Authors: Petrič Jerneja
Published: September 2024

The paper is divided into three parts. In the Introduction, the author briefly speaks about the inconsistency in the use of literary terms autobiographymemoirdiaryjournal and autobiographical novel. The second part surveys the »golden era« of American Slovene/Slovene American autobiography, between 1891 and 1965, pointing to some general thematic and stylistic characteristics. The third part of the paper analyzes Frank Javh Kern's 1937 autobiographical book Spomini ob tridesetletnici prihoda v Ameriko, a hybrid text consisting mostly of autobiography, memoir and diary.
Materni jezik, jezik okolja in tuji jeziki v avtobiografskih črticah Zofke Kveder
Authors: Jesenšek Marko
Published: September 2024

The article presents Slovene-Czech-Croatian language connections in the sketches by Zofka Kveder about her daughters in the Vydra’s monthly journal Domači prijatelj (Domestic Friend), published in Prague between 1904 and 1913. The sketches were later published in book form with certain additional material in Ljubljana in 1978, under the title Vladka, Mitka, Mirica. They were written according to the literary norm of the so-called modern era of Slovene literary language, such as was endorsed in artistic language by modernists and their supporters at the beginning of the 20th century. There is no direct intertwining of Czech or Croatian language, but there is a great deal of consideration of multilingualism and the role that Slovene, Czech, Croatian and German languages had in the lives of Zofka Kveder’s three daughters as they grew up; Czech and Croatian are presented as the first and second mother languages of the first-born Vladka (the language of the environment), while Slovene and German are described as her first and second foreign languages.
Med fikcijo in resničnostjo v avtobiografski prozi
Authors: Čeh Jožica
Published: September 2024

In postmodern literary theory literature as one of the possible fictional worlds does not place itself in opposition to reality. The links between reality and fiction are most obvious in those literary genres that more noticeably simulate reality, such as autobiographical prose, for instance. In the article the role of fictional signals in the case of Cankar’s My Life is presented. In spite of concrete references located in the extra-literary world, Cankar’s My Life is only one of numerous possible ways of putting the writer’s reality into words. Textual fictional signals place Cankar’s My Life in autobiographical short prose. On the conceptual-thematic, structural and stylistic level Cankar’s My Life establishes itself as an ethical psychological sketch with an autobiographical basis, the prevailing narrative genre of Cankar’s literary creativity after 1910, as well as placing itself in the context of the thematization of the identity crisis of the subject in the European modern.
Avto/biografije med pričevanjem, okrevanjem in uporom
Authors: Urek Mojca
Published: September 2024

The article presents the significance of literary auto/biography as a means of resistance against pathologizing discourses and political silence that have long prevailed in speaking and writing about people on the margins of society who are often to be found amongst the users of social security services and of related professions.The author demonstrates that auto/biographies also have a great deal of intellectual potential and represent an important source for the research and training of professionals. Auto/biographies can be subversive and can expose the tabooed spaces, can enable access to hidden realities, can be a revisiting of experience as an author, and can strengthen the power of the narrator and the community of survivors. They can, however, have a different side: they can entrap the narrator in the prescribed scenario and strengthen the discourse of authority instead of that of the narrator. The article presents certain Slovene and foreign literary auto/biographies of women, of users of psychiatric services, of handicapped people and of drug users.
Slovenska esejistika v presečišču biografskih in avtobiografskih vidikov
Authors: Štuhec Miran
Published: September 2024

The essay is a literary genre characterized by an emphasis on a subjective relationship towards the topic of the essay; this may, in fact, even be the genre’s primary characteristic. This relationship is, therefore, based on emotional and intellectual components that arise through the essayist’s specific attitude towards the world. This is also true in cases where the author writes an essay about another person and the work gains the mark of the genre of biography, as well as in the case of autobiography through the double prism of evoked autothematic reflections. Slovene essay writing continuously engages with biographical and autobiographical themes. Even Stritar’s Preširnovo življenje (Prešeren’s Life) is a text that touches upon this theme, at least to a certain extent. In the article I write about Slovene essay writing that in the last five decades has dealt with biographical themes. With regard to the selected texts I draw attention to two main streams. In the first are essays that evoke certain universal ethical questions in relation to well known personalities of Slovene public life, while the second group is made up of texts with relatively strong emotional elements. The article also addresses autobiographical essays and establishes the so-called autobiographical quality as one of the most important components of essay poetics.
(Slovenska) leksika med leksikonom in slovnico
Authors: Gantar Polona
Published: September 2024

The article deals with a field labelled in linguistics as a “grey area” between lexical or semantic and syntactic problem areas in language. Our conclusions are based on the recognition that it is impossible to separate lexical knowledge from grammatical knowledge, and that lexical units are, in this sense, equally loaded with the meaning and syntactic potential of language. Taking this as a point of departure, we propose procedures, by compiling Word Sketches for Slovene within the Word Sketch Engine, for the syntactic and semantic identification of multi-word lexical units within the boundaries of the relevant context.
Aplikacija teorij pravljic na primeru Lepe Vide v slovenski mladinski književnosti
Authors: Mileva Blažić Milena
Published: September 2024

Seven different theories are presented in the discussion, all treating the study of folk fairy tales. At the beginning of the 20th century, two theories were predominant: the folkloristic theory (Antti Aarne, Stith Thompson) and the structuralist theory (Vladimir Propp). In the second half of the 20th century, the stylistic-literary theory of Max Lüthi had an important influence on further research in Europe. The interest in fairy tales and psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud) continued in the second half of the 20th century. Although the psychoanalytic theory of Bruno Bettelheim became popular, it was also criticised for connecting models of folk fairy tales with sexuality. Within psychoanalysis differing views were also developed by Carl Gustav Jung (archetypes in fairytales) and Marie-Louise von Franz (archetypes of women), who in her approach primarily elucidated folk fairy tales. The sociological approach of Jack Zipes became predominant in the 1980s and 1990s, and had an important influence on the development of the feminist perspective on the model of folk fairy tales and the gender studies. The representatives of feminist theory were Maria Tatar, Marina Warner and Clarissa Pinkola Estés. Characteristic of the latter is feminist research with an explicit emphasis on archetypes. No pure theories exist, but rather each of the theories mentioned combines various perspectives. The motive of Beautiful Vida in Slovene young-adult literature is one of the most important national motives. In Slovene young-adult literature and in literature teaching the following texts are used: 1) the folk poem Young Vida (Ihan), 2) Beautiful Vida (France Prešeren), 3) Beautiful Vida in Action (Andrej Rozman Roza) and 4) the folk fairy tale The Prince and Beautiful Vida.
Večjezični možgani: učenje in izgubljanje jezikov
Authors: Rossi Eleonora
Published: September 2024

Bilingual aphasia is still a field of research under construction. On the one hand, there are considerably few studies which describe cases of bilingual aphasia, despite the fact that more and more cases need (and will need) attention in the clinical reality. On the other hand, the guidelines to deal with the assessment and the therapy of those increasing number of cases is still poor. The goal of this paper is to give a historical background of the definitions given about bilingual aphasia and outline the relevant theoretical models. The description of a single case study will be used to illustrate one case of recovery of the second language in a bilingual aphasic speaker. Some general guidelines for treatment will be proposed.
Vloga manjšinske šole pri ohranjanju slovenskega jezika in kulture
Authors: Kern Damjana
Published: September 2024

The article focuses on the role of the minority educational institution in the preservation of Slovene language and culture amongst pupils who decide to undertake their schooling in such an institution. The St Peter’s Economics High School in the immediate vicinity of St Jacob in Rož was selected as a case study. This is a relatively small minority schooling institution with a long and rich tradition. It is located in the Carinthian countryside inhabited by members of the Slovene community and it holds an important place in minority schooling in Austrian Carinthia, educating pupils for professions that the region requires. In recent years, one of the main achievements of the school has been the training of pupils for cross-border economic contacts. From the very beginning, the school has been valued for its emphasis on multi-lingual and humanistic education, and above all because for its substantial efforts to preserve Slovene language and culture.
Tri podobe v Balantičevi liriki: kri, zemlja in ogenj
Authors: Bandelj David
Published: September 2024

The paper deals with an analysis of three images in the poetry of France Balantič. It first attempts to offer an interpretation of the various ways in which these images are used by the poet and then with the aid of contemporary theories of the metaphor attempts to place them in a broader context. The findings arrived at are primarily linked to the fact that the use of metaphors or symbols in Balantič has multiple meanings, shifting between the physical and spiritual spheres in such a way that from their initial ‘earthly’ and experiential meaning metaphors in his poetry gain a new ‘super-earthly’ meaning that is linked with the poet’s religious experience.
Sestavljanje enojezičnega slovarja za domače govorce
Authors: Hanks Patrick
Published: September 2024

In the article we compare the role of the dictionary and the lexical database, and address the issue of language register and correctness in dictionaries. We then deal with various types of sense distribution in dictionaries, the history of the word, and the principles of selection of dictionary headwords. We cite the corpus as an essential source for the treatment of meaning, collocation and syntagmatics, and investigate ways of interpreting corpus data – corpus profiling of headwords. We conclude with the thought that a dictionary represents the central language standard, whereby all of the expressed linguistic opinions contained in it must be based on corpus evidence.
Dečki med erotiko in moralo: telo, spol in spolnost v prvem slovenskem homoerotičnem romanu
Authors: Zavrl Andrej
Published: September 2024

Novšak’s Boys (1938), the first Slovene homoerotic novel, is firmly rooted in the traditional conception of the body gender and sexuality. Nonetheless, in a detailed analysis of the text we can sense the nascent state of the superseding of this conception. Boys is neither a clear dividing line nor an unproblematic transition between the homoerotic and the heteroerotic. The transition is not linear - if the erotic behaviour of the boys in the boarding school had had a single-sex orientation it would, in the sense of a transitional homoerotic phase, have led to the heteroerotic in an unproblematic way - but rather it is a case of both orientations being present at the same time: heteronorms constantly intervene in the homoerotic, while the heteroerotic is marked by the homosocial and the homoerotic.
Mira Mihelič in Ljubljana: avtobiografija Ure mojih dni kot pričevanje o pred- in povojnem meščanskem literarnem življenju v Ljubljani
Authors: Borovnik Silvija
Published: September 2024

The work of Mira Mihelič is defined primarily by novel writing, and within this framework by the family chronicle from a middle class environment. It is known that the author included autobiographical elements in her literary works, in the majority of which Ljubljana is recognisable. The images of Ljubljana are not just limited to exterior locations and scenes, but rather on this background the specific pre-war and post-war literary life of the city is clearly evident. Mihelič writes about this in her autobiography The Hours of My Days, which is one of the rare autobiographies by a female Slovene writer in the second half of the 20th century.
Pomen uporabe tehnik pri simultanem tolmačenju
Authors: Zidar Forte Jana
Published: September 2024

Simultaneous interpreting is a complex cognitive process. However, various techniques exist that can make the work of the interpreter significantly easier. The article presents the findings of a small research project on the use of techniques in simultaneous interpreting from French to Slovene. The research was based on a corpus of ten speeches given at plenary sessions of the European Parliament. The selection of techniques studied includes both techniques of dealing with time limitations as well as general techniques of treating texts and techniques regarding the micro level of the text. Particularly evident in the corpus analysed was the use of the reformulation and segmentation of longer sentences, as well as omission, which is one of the more sensitive techniques as it can quickly deteriorate into a loss of quality. In general we can assert that the use of techniques is dependent primarily on the individual interpreter and the specific circumstances.
Humornost v kratki pripovedi Prežihovega Voranca
Authors: Jesenšek Marko
Published: September 2024

The discussion presents the linguistic characteristics of humour in the story Tadej pl. Spobijan. In it Prežihov Voranc presents a witty and humorous account of a meeting between middle class social outcasts and people from various social strata, thus demonstrating that he has a sense of humour despite the fact that we are not able to label him as a humorist writer. The humour is evident in the superb linguistic and stylistic illustration of the social conditions in which the individuals find themselves, while this is linguistically supplemented with folk expression and metaphor, words with figurative meaning and interesting word games, as well as with witty remarks, personifications and renaming. In his short story humour is concealed in naturalist, expressionist and realist narrative, in descriptions or short dialogues in which humour interweaves with irony and satire, sometimes concluding in grotesque images and misshapen emotions.
»Rodil(a) se je v ...«: biografski kompleks slovenske literarne zgodovine
Authors: Pogačar Tim
Published: September 2024

The article attempts to explain why the biographical framework takes a relatively more important position in Slovene literary studies than in other areas of study. The author suggests certain possible explanations for why information about the birth and death of writers gains such emphasis in literary history. This practice could indicate (1) the overlapping of academic literary studies and criticism, (2) the conservative view of Slovene academic literary history, as is identified as typical by Hayden White (1973), or (3) a powerful, and frequently also productive, positivist tendency in Slovene literary studies. (4) It is also assumed that this habit reflects increased sensitivity and expectations regarding historical changes, particularly from 1980 onwards. (5) The most speculative explanation is that in former practice greater meaning was attributed to age differences in general, which is also reflected in writing about literature as a nation-building activity.
Struktura poezije Svetlane Makarovič med grotesko in metafiziko
Authors: Troha Gašper
Published: September 2024

The article analyses the poems Zvezda and Igla by Svetlana Makarovič, which were first published in the collection Tisti čas(1993), and later included by the author at the end of her selection entitled Samost, which was self-published in 2002. In these two poems,Makarovič clearly shows the form of the modernised ballad, as has been discussed in detail by Boris A. Novak, while at the same time introducing thesymbol of the star above the mountain. In addition to a detailed reading of both poems and an analysis of the juxtaposition and counterposition of thesound and sense of the words, the star above the mountain shows itself to be the introduction of a new metaphysics that is no longer able to beenforced and validated through violence, a metaphysics into which is sunk the poet’s world. Alongside the thematic and formal approaches, it is aboveall possible to find parallels between this poetry and in-yer-face theatre, which demonstrates the integration of Svetlana Makarovič’s opus in worldliterary classics.
Ustvarjalna stičišča pisateljic Zofke Kveder in Julke Hlapec Đorđević: primeri v romanih Hanka in Jedno dopisivanje – fragmenti romana
Authors: Fužir Barbara
Published: September 2024

In addition to stylistic and conceptual-thematic similarities, the novel Hanka (1918) by Slovene writer Zofka Kveder and the novel Jedno dopisivanje – fragmenti romana (1932) by Serbian writer Julka Hlapec Đorđević are also linked by the authors’ similar international paths and their interest in the woman question, which, in spite of numerous similarities in the selected works, in places also led to different findings. Both writers presented the figure of the female intellectual. In Hanka, the female intellectual delves into her own intimacy and attempts to solve her inner conflicts, while in Jedno dopisivanje the figure of the female intellectual is presented as the antipole to the emotional male subject. The novel by the Serbian writer is also interesting due to the inclusion of the figure of Zofka Kveder in the plot itself.
Fanovska literatura kot prostor preizkušanja alternativnih življenjskih praks
Authors: Jordan Petra
Published: September 2024

The vast body of stories – different in terms of genre, type and form – about the most famous literary characters that are written and published by their faithful fan readers is in many ways a special phenomenon. It has been growing steadily all over the world, and is mostly brought to the attention of the public with regard to its undefined legal status. However, it remains largely unknown in the Slovene community. Its specific features at the production, distribution and reception levels of the literary system derive from its specially motivated origin as a key feature of fan literature, distinguishing it from standard literary production. These features include amateurism, non-profit production, transience, collective work, a culture of collaboration (sharing) and new paradigms of the author-reader relationship, the selection mechanism and authority.
Dejavniki literarne kanonizacije v srednješolskih berilih – na primeru Prešerna
Authors: Božič Zoran
Published: September 2024

In the 19th century, Prešeren, undisputedly the leading name of the Slovene literary canon, first became established as a classical poet. Having conquered the Slovene poetry Parnassus, he increasingly became a Slovene national myth, especially after World War II. He was assigned a different status in high school reading materials, where he was often the first author, but his position within the canon continued to change due to various factors: apart from on the test of time, the selection of authors and their fiction texts depended on the personalities of the compilers of reading materials, on the influence exerted by literary history, criticism and didactics, as well as on the changes of the national territory and socio-political and socio-economical changes.
Z odprtimi očmi zagotovo pridemo na zeleno vejo kritičnega branja
Authors: Saksida Igor
Published: September 2024

In the introduction, the article demonstrates the possibilities inherent in the selection of socially engaged texts for the subject of literature and the infuence of such texts on the development of competencies in critical reading, while at the same time summarising the circumstances (opinions and responses) surrounding the selection of the two socially engaged texts used as the basic texts in the Cankar Award Competition in the 2011/2012 school year. The central section presents the steady growth in the number of participants in the competition since the 2006/2007 school year and defnes the elements of reading competence required by the process of essay composition, which are also found in the recommendations to mentors. The results of the state competition show the adequate degree of sensitivity of the test, as well as indicating that amongst the criteria determining the ranking of the participants the most important are those of comprehension and the convincingness of the personal response, followed by the use of literary knowledge, the structure of the text and language correctness. The results, and above all the best essays, prove that the Cankar Award Competition is an important facet of the development of reading culture and competencies in critical reading.
Sodobnejši koncept sporazumevalne zmožnosti kot izhodišče za prenovo jezikovnega dela izpita iz slovenščine na splošni maturi
Authors: Vogel Jerca
Published: September 2024

The starting point for the discussion is refection on the status of the Slovene exam in the general matura examination and on its integration in the four-year syllabus of Slovene at the general upper secondary school (grammar school). It has been established that the relationship between the teaching goals, the expected achievements and the goals of the matura exam is not entirely clear. Consequently, in the reform process the concept of communicative competence as the central goal of language instruction has had to be taken into account within the syllabus, along with the fundamental principles that apply in the contemporary understanding of this concept. On the basis of these conclusions, we advocate the preservation of the basic structure of the original text analysis and the introduction of new forms of tasks that enable the consistent contextualisation of activities and the assessment of the elements of communicative competence in interpersonal interaction.
Ozaveščenost o javnem govornem nastopanju – priložnost za profesionalni razvoj učitelja
Authors: Petek Tomaž
Published: September 2024

The teacher’s ability to communicate effectively is one of the key competencies, and within its framework the role of the teacher as a public speaker plays an important part. The promotion and development of public speaking skills in pre-service teachers is important for the successful implementation of the objectives of the modern educational process, i.e., teaching in the classroom, and thus represents an opportunity for teachers to develop professionally. Due to changed views on effective teaching, and as a result of modified patterns of communication in modern society, lecturing/explanation, as a characteristic rhetoric type and one of the fundamental monologue spoken text types formed by the teacher in the classroom, has changed significantly. The teacher should therefore be well prepared in terms of content, as well as didactically and “rhetorically”, before undertaking public speaking. Given that this is a complex and important skill, it is of utmost importance that students (future teachers) be properly trained for this activity while studying at the 1st level (as well as the second). In developing teachers’ public speaking competencies, the focus should, among other things, be on the ability to produce relevant, comprehensible, accurate and efficient public monologue spoken texts.
Od globalnih smernic do lokalnih kontekstov: učenje in poučevanje tujih jezikov v Sloveniji
Authors: Skela Janez , Sešek Urška
Published: September 2024

The article highlights some of the principles and strategic guidelines of foreign language education as well as theoretical approaches to the design of such education, which, in the 21st century, has been decisively marked all over the world – including in Slovenia – by the domination of English as the global lingua franca. The dominance of English has a major impact on the standards of knowledge and expected achievements of pupils, resulting in at least two fundamental changes: (1) the lower age of foreign language beginner learners, and (2) increasing exposure to the target language. In the second part of the article, a detailed presentation is given of the state of foreign language learning in the Slovene public school system (i.e., range of languages , scope and learning contexts), highlighting some of the key problems. Informal foreign language learning in Slovenia is also briefly discussed.
Delovanje Gregorja Kocijana na Pedagoški fakulteti v Ljubljani
Authors: Mileva Blažić Milena
Published: September 2024

The central part of the bio-bibliography of Gregor Kocijan is represented by his lectureship at his affiliate institution – the Pedagogical Academy, later the Ljubljana Faculty of Education (from 1975 until his retirement on 31 December 1998), where he taught General (and Youth) Literature, while Youth Literature was taught by Marjana Kobe. In the Bologna reform, the subject was divided into two parts: Introduction to Literature, and Youth Literature. Due to the restructuring of the Ljubljana Pedagogical Academy, which once educated teachers of Slovene at all of the levels of eight-year primary school, but later only teachers at class-level primary school, Kocijan was asked to also teach at the Koper unit of the Faculty of Education and the Maribor Faculty of Education, as well as at the Ljubljana Faculty of Arts. His main scientific research interest was Slovene short narrative prose, which he treated in the reading materials for the higher grades of primary school, i.e., from the fifth to the ninth grade of primary school.
Notranja učna diferenciacija in individualizacija pri pouku književnosti v heterogenih učnih skupinah tretjega vzgojno-izobraževalnega obdobja
Authors: Kerndl Milena
Published: September 2024

The article presents one part of research into the implementation of the principles of inner educational differentiation and individualisation in literature classes. The research was carried out in the 2011/12 school year amongst teachers in heterogeneous groups of the 3rd educational cycle. The key issue investigated was the capacity of Slovenian language teachers to recognise differences between pupils, i.e., their receptive abilities and the horizon of their expectations. In relation to this, a study was also made of the implementation of the principles of inner educational differentiation and individualisation in the treatment of literary texts, which aims to systematically develop the reception ability of the individual pupil. The described capacity should be a component of every teacher’s literary-didactic competence. The results of the research show that teachers do not feel sufficiently competent to discriminate successfully between pupils in terms of their abilities, and therefore desire additional training in this field.
Slovenska literatura na avstrijskem Koroškem: manjšinska – regionalna?
Authors: Leben Andrej
Published: September 2024

The contribution sheds light on conceptual changes in the treatment and designation of Slovenian literature in Austrian Carinthia, both within the discourse of literary science and on the part of literary authors, on the backdrop of the sociopolitical contexts and literary development of the past decades. Recent literary practices, in particular, demonstrate that ethnic, linguistic and geographical criteria are inadequate for a comprehensive definition of the subject, especially in light of the fact that the literature of Slovenian authors in Carinthia ranges from Slovenian writings via hybrid language forms to writings in German and other languages. At the same time, literary images of the reality and space concerning the past and present of Carinthian Slovenes are also being created by authors who do not belong to a minority.
Za literarno interpretacijo
Authors: Zupan Sosič Alojzija
Published: September 2024

Following the so-called interpretive turn at the end of the last century, literary interpretation gained an important position in literary science. Broadly speaking, literary interpretation is a social practice that preserves the etymological meanings of the notion of interpretation: “explanation”, “clarification”, “elucidation”, “meaning”, “conception”, today centred more around understanding. A broader definition of literary interpretation also takes into account the significance of literary reading, paralleled to literary interpretation in various ways, whether as its synonym, hypernym or hyponym. In adopting a narrower view of interpretation, I take into account Eco’s and Culler’s definitions by – from the four links of purpose, text, co-text and reader – highlighting the very purpose of the text. I propose a two-tier structure of literary interpretation in which the different degrees and processes – perceiving, experiencing, analysing, clarifying, explaining, comparing, assessing and attributing meaning – are intertwined, complementary and self-contained, whereby the circular integration of parts into a whole is of crucial importance. The first phase, which is dominated by perception, experience and analysis, “repeats the content” and reflects upon the reading process at a more simple level, taking into account acceptance, experience and description or structure analysis. The second phase comprises clarification, explanation, comparison and comprehension of meanings by looking for sense in the appropriate contexts, although elements of the first phase may also appear, while the most syncretic and summarising processes are those of evaluation and assigning meaning, in the sense of positioning the text in the valid systems of literary and cultural values as well as recognising the mediocrity or exceptional value of the interpreted text.
O črnogorski trilogiji Petra II. Petrovića - Njegoša
Authors: Osolnik Vladimir
Published: September 2024

During the past decades of in-depth analysis of the literary texts of the Montenegrin poet and ecclesiastical and secular ruler of Montenegro, Radivoj Petrović (1813–1833), later known as Petar II Petrović Njegoš (1833–1851), two new realisations have gradually taken shape: firstly, the actual chronology of the creation of his so-called major literary works (The Ray of the Microcosm, The False Tsar Stephen the Little and The Mountain Wreath in 1845, 1846 and 1847 respectively), and secondly the trilogy as an intentional literary and ideological Montenegrin oeuvre or a planned authorial written record as the foundation of the specific Montenegrin national identity.
Literarno nagrajevanje na primeru kresnika
Authors: Perenič Urška , Hladnik Miran
Published: September 2024

The initial part of the discussion provides a theoretical framework for the concept of literary award giving: at the inter-systemic level in the intersection between the cultural field of ritualised forms of the symbolic worshipping of literature and literary science, and at the level of the literary system in the intersection between the practice of literary studies and that of science. A central role is taken by the jury member: on the one hand, he or she is viewed in interaction with other agents of the literary system while, on the other hand, he or she is observed at the level of literary treatment and presented within the process of autonomous and professional decision-making. How professional and objective this process can be is clear from the second part of the discussion, which provides a detailed compilation of the Kresnik Award jury policies over a period of two years. The assessment scales offer an insight into the procedures of literary assessment. The discussion concludes with a consideration of literary award giving as a relevant object of literary studies.