bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Identification of immune feature genes and intercellular profiles in diabetic cardiomyopathy
Authors: Zheng Ze-Qun , Cai Di-Hui , Song Yong-Fei
Published: September 2024

BACKGROUND

Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a multifaceted cardiovascular disorder in which immune dysregulation plays a pivotal role. The immunological molecular mechanisms underlying DCM are poorly understood.

AIM

To examine the immunological molecular mechanisms of DCM and construct diagnostic and prognostic models of DCM based on immune feature genes (IFGs).

METHODS

Weighted gene co-expression network analysis along with machine learning methods were employed to pinpoint IFGs within bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) datasets. Single-sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA) facilitated the analysis of immune cell infiltration. Diagnostic and prognostic models for these IFGs were developed and assessed in a validation cohort. Gene expression in the DCM cell model was confirmed through real time-quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blotting techniques. Additionally, single-cell RNA-seq data provided deeper insights into cellular profiles and interactions.

RESULTS

The overlap between 69 differentially expressed genes in the DCM-associated module and 2483 immune genes yielded 7 differentially expressed immune-related genes. Four IFGs showed good diagnostic and prognostic values in the validation cohort: Proenkephalin (Penk) and retinol binding protein 7 (Rbp7), which were highly expressed, and glucagon receptor and inhibin subunit alpha, which were expressed at low levels in DCM patients (all area under the curves > 0.9). SsGSEA revealed that IFG-related immune cell infiltration primarily involved type 2 T helper cells. High expression of Penk (P < 0.0001) and Rbp7 (P = 0.001) was detected in cardiomyocytes and interstitial cells and further confirmed in a DCM cell model in vitro . Intercellular events and communication analysis revealed abnormal cellular phenotype transformation and signaling communication in DCM, especially between mesenchymal cells and macrophages.

CONCLUSION

The present study identified Penk and Rbp7 as potential DCM biomarkers, and aberrant mesenchymal-immune cell phenotype communication may be an important aspect of DCM pathogenesis.
Combining GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT-2 inhibitors for cardiovascular disease prevention in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review with multiple network meta-regressions
Authors: Zhu Jing-Jing , Wilding John P H , Gu Xiao-Song
Published: September 2024

BACKGROUND

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RA) and sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT-2I) are associated with significant cardiovascular benefit in type 2 diabetes (T2D). However, GLP-1RA or SGLT-2I alone may not improve some cardiovascular outcomes in patients with prior cardiovascular co-morbidities.

AIM

To explore whether combining GLP-1RA and SGLT-2I can achieve additional benefit in preventing cardiovascular diseases in T2D.

METHODS

The systematic review was conducted according to PRISMA recommendations. The protocol was registered on PROSPERO (ID: 42022385007). A total of 107049 participants from eligible cardiovascular outcomes trials of GLP-1RA and SGLT-2I were included in network meta-regressions to estimate cardiovascular benefit of the combination treatment. Effect modification of prior myocardial infarction (MI) and heart failure (HF) was also explored to provide clinical insight as to when the combination treatment should be considered.

RESULTS

The estimated hazard ratios (HR)GLP-1RA/SGLT-2I vs Placebo (0.75-0.98) and HRCombination vs GLP-1RA/SGLT-2I (0.26-0.86) for primary and secondary cardiovascular outcomes suggested that the combination treatment may achieve additional cardiovascular benefit compared with GLP-1RA or SGLT-2I alone. In patients with prior MI or HF, the mono-therapies may not improve the overall cardiovascular outcomes, as the estimated HRMI+/HF+ (0.57-1.52) suggested that GLP-1RA or SGLT-2I alone may be associated with lower risks of hospitalization for HF but not cardiovascular death.

CONCLUSION

Considering its greater cardiovascular benefit in T2D, the combination treatment of GLP-1RA and SGLT-2I might be prioritized in patients with prior MI or HF, where the monotherapies may not provide sufficient cardiovascular protection.
Tema smrti v mladinski prozi
Authors: Haramija Dragica
Published: September 2024

The analysis of approximately fifty children’s books and youth prose has shown that the concept of death does not bear a single meaning; its role differs according to the following factors: according to whether death is the topic or motif of the prose work, according to literary genre (fairy tale, fantasy story, short story, youth novel) and the placing of such prose work amongst either realistic or irrational prose, according to the type of death (death caused by old age, disease, misfortune, accident at work/play, suicide or death as a consequence of crime or war), and according to the age group of the reader (or listener in the case of those who are at the pre-reading stage), since phrases of understanding death are strongly correlated to the child’s cognitive development.
Po sledeh jezikovnih travm v sodobni slovenski književnosti
Authors: Paternu Boris
Published: September 2024

Linguistic trauma is a frequent topic of contemporary Slovene literature. It is most notable when it concerns the question of a writer’s personal choice between the Slovene language and a foreign language. The linguistic distress of older writers, who in their youth had to survive the linguistic genocide of Fascism and Nazism, is demonstrated in the signs of great stress and trauma. At the time of democracy and globalisation, younger authors seem to demonstrate a phenomenon which is quite the opposite: opting freely for a foreign language, withdrawing from Slovene. In both cases of linguistic exposure, that of the genocide and that of globalisation, the writer’s linguistic sense is exposed to depression and stress. Typical of this is that a trauma caused by genocide can trigger off an increasing linguistic and stylistic creativity of the endangered language. This is illustrated through examples by the writers Florjan Lipuš, Lojze Kovačič and Brina Svit.
Pisava = latinica
Authors: Pogačnik Aleš
Published: September 2024

The starting point of the article is that writing is the first political fact of language. It describes the current situation in written communication around the world, in particular those languages with a short or non-existent written tradition. Through examples it highlights some pattern dilemmas on written norms. These dilemmas concern differentiation between dialect/socio-dialect, Pidgin, Creole and language, establishment of a written norm, and the choice of writing, especially for the main languages of young states that have only recently ascribed a special status to these languages. In the conclusion, the article points out the inefficiency of written reforms for languages, which use the leading alphabet of the modern world, the Latin alphabet, and also discusses the questionable nature of the Slovene written reform on borrowing foreign words, which wrongly presumes that in the Latin alphabet a single letter represents a single sound.
O zanikanju in nikalnici v slovenščini
Authors: Ilc Gašper
Published: September 2024

The article deals with negation in Slovene from a cross-linguistic perspective, focusing on its syntactic and semantic characteristics. On the basis of the classification of negation by Ö. Dahl (1979), we demonstrate that the Slovene negator ne shows characteristics of both the morphological and syntactic types of negation. Following the well-established classification of negative elements (e.g., Haegeman 1995), we find that Slovene negative pronouns best fit the category of so-called Negative Concord Items (NCI) that are morphologically derived from interrogative pronouns. In the process of syntactic derivation (Slovene) negative pronouns enter into an agreement relationship with the sentence negator ne that we interpret as single negation. From a semantic point of view we call this relationship negative concord and we distinguish it from the other three possible interpretations of multiple negation: double negation, litotes and emphatic negation.
O avtobiografiji in avtobiografskem pisanju z vidika literarnih ustvarjalcev
Authors: Leben Andrej
Published: September 2024

Taking the examples of Janez Trdina, Ivan Cankar, Vladimir Bartol and Lojze Kovačič, the article focuses on views of Slovene writers towards their own and foreign autobiographical writing as a specific aspect within autobiographical discourse. Not only did all four authors write important autobiographical texts, but in them they also dealt with the theme of autobiographical writing itself, even before literary science engaged seriously with this theme. Thus they influenced writers’ and literary science’s conception of the autobiography; from their texts and thinking we can also understand the constants and changes in Slovene autobiographical writing.
Avtobiografskost kot umeščanje osebne izkušnje
Authors: Tratnik Suzana
Published: September 2024

In the article I consider whether lesbian and gay literature is necessarily autobiographical and reflect on the meaning of putting personal experience into literature for this kind of writing. In this literature the autobiography is frequently regarded as weaker in a literary sense, because it is thought that the authors write »simply from within themselves«. However, with the structuring of personal experience in the broader social context these experiences gain a location, while lesbian/gay writing shows itself as a platform for creativity and a broader perspective of the writer.
Mladinska dela Aksinje Kermauner
Authors: Haramija Dragica
Published: September 2024

To date, Aksinja Kermauner has published ten literary works in book form dedicated to children and young adults. Her works are classified in the following literary genres: most of her texts fall into the category of prose, namely realistic short stories, imaginary stories, social-psychological young-adult novel, classic fairy tale and realistic narrative; the author has also published the text for a play (a puppet show) and an informative picture book on blindness and impaired vision. The theme she is primarily concerned with is the relationships between people with unimpaired senses and those with special needs. The author introduces elements of humour into her work, and especially optimism, which in contemporary society seems to be somewhat anachronistic. The same is true of the continuous recalling of the importance of friendship, understanding among people (particularly overcoming generational conflicts), and environmental care.
Leksikalna baza: vse, kar ste vedno želeli vedeti o jeziku
Authors: Gantar Polona
Published: September 2024

In the article we present the compilation of a lexical database for Slovene, which is being undertaken within the framework of the project Communication in Slovene. We first shed light upon the concept from the theoretical point of view, and then position it within the context of concrete results in similar projects for other individual European languages. The dual purpose of the lexical database for Slovene, i.e., for dictionary applications and for natural language processing, determines the description of lexical units from three basic viewpoints: semantic, syntactic and collocational. On the basis of these points of departure we present the construction of the lexical database in terms of content levels and elucidate theoretical reflections on content solutions. Finally we present a tool for processing the lexicogrammatical profile of wordsWord Sketch, and describe the programme interface for the production of a lexical database.
Od SSKJ do spletnega portala standardne slovenščine
Authors: Krek Simon
Published: September 2024

In the article we treat the state of reference sources for Slovene language and outline a proposal for a programme for constructing a portal of interconnected language sources in electronic form. The proposal is conceived in four sections, embracing the areas of language description, the standardisation of language, and terminological and bilingual sources. We briefly sketch the development of similar sources for other languages and give examples of these sources in particular fields. We find that the state of development of sources for Slovene is inadequate, as is the access to these sources, and conclude that improvement of this situation would be aided by more imaginative planning and the existence of a central institutional body with a capacity for the genuine provision of financial resources.
Vprašanje o Podbevškovem »pesniškem molku«
Authors: Kos Matevž
Published: September 2024

The discussion is focused on the question of the early poetic silence of Anton Podbevšek, the first representative of the Slovene literary avant-garde, referred to by some interpreters as the “Slovene Rimbaud”, as he withdrew from writing poetry at the very early age of only twenty-two. Podbevšek’s only collection of poetry Man with Bombs was not published until 1925, i.e., five years after the poet had opted for silence. In the first half of the 1920s, he participated in the emergence of two literary journals, Three Swans and Red Pilot. The present article analyses and compares these journals, and on this basis attempts to explain the relationship between literary and political avant-gardism in Podbevšek, his departure from poetry and his later attempts to return to poetry.
Ekdotika in tehnologija: elektronske znanstvenokritične izdaje slovenskega slovstva
Authors: Ogrin Matija , Erjavec Tomaž
Published: September 2024

The collection of critical editions eZISS came about with the connection of three elements: the awakening of interest in primary sources of Slovene literature; the intensive methodological introduction of the fundamental philosophical-historical sciences, particularly ecdotics or text criticism; and finally the use of contemporary open standards for electronic text encoding and processing. The article presents the points of departure and methods used in the preparation of scientific publications, in particular those methods employing electronic text encoding technology. The preparation of the publications is based on guidelines issued by the consortium Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), by which technological standards are linked with the classical philological methods of critical editions. This approach has also proved fruitful for the issuing of critical editions of Slovene literature, and it has stimulated more intensive interest in the research and publication of primary sources of Slovene literature.
Postromantični lirski subjekt v poeziji s podpisom Fanny Haussmann
Authors: Buttolo Frančiška
Published: September 2024

The most important literary-historical findings on the poetry of Fanny Haussmann, who was presumably the first female Slovene poet, are firstly that the subject in this poetry is lyrical (because the object of its discourse is its own subjectivity) and that it is Late Romantic, as it perceives its own autonomous interior as the highest value, irrespective of the fact that this interior experiences only defeat (cf. Grdina 1992: 80–83). The two main poetic forms of this poetry also indicate such a subject: the object poem (in the third person, not in the first person direct speech) and the so-called “vložnica” (a poem with a fictitious subject who speaks his or her role). The present analysis of the subject in the poetry of Fanny Haussmann is derived from these two findings, while also demonstrating that the lyrical subject is not just Late Romantic but rather Post-Romantic, on the extreme edge of Romanticism, particularly due to its complete passivity, its world-weariness and its caustic irony. Of course, it rejects realistic values that dictate the respecting of biological and historical reality.
Prežihov Voranc in avstrijska Koroška ali o težavah s Prežihom
Authors: Leben Andrej
Published: September 2024

The article provides a description of Prežih’s connections with Austrian Carinthia and his striving for the political unification of Carinthian Slovenes, who were separated by the new Yugoslav-Austrian border after the result of the 1920 referendum. It sheds light on the characteristics and problems related to the mediation of Prežih and his literature in Austrian Carinthia after the Second World War. Particular attention is devoted to Prežih’s reception and popularisation on the strength of his theatre activities. This strongly marked his image amongst the Slovene Carinthian public, while until recently he remained almost entirely unknown to his German speaking compatriots.
Videovsebine v šoli in ob tekmovanju iz znanja slovenščine Slovenščina ima dolg jezik
Authors: Nidorfer Šiškovič Mojca
Published: September 2024

In the article, we provide argumentation in support of a new competition in the knowledge of the Slovene language entitled “Slovene Has a Big Mouth” organised by the Science to the Youth section of the Slavic Society of Slovenia. The design of the competition is such that it takes into account the spread and use of contemporary media in the lives of children and young adults, while at the same time emphasizing the importance of in-depth engagement with literary texts and a more rigorous team preparation of the competition products. In the frst competition, entitled Literature on Film, primary and upper secondary school pupils will compete in the preparation of a short film based on a selected literary text. The choice of this particular content places the emphasis on complexity, given that in the process of reproduction the literary and filmic elements come together. The designers of the competition presuppose that this is precisely what pupils and teachers will be attracted and motivated by.
Tekmovanje za Cankarjevo priznanje v luči nekaterih primerjav
Authors: Krakar Vogel Boža
Published: September 2024

The article provides comparisons of the current concept of the Cankar Award Competition with certain other school language competitions and with competitions in other felds within social studies and natural sciences, as well as with some competitions in the mother tongue in neighbouring countries. A special focus is on two competitions in Hungarian language and literature for high school pupils in Hungary, which are complex both in content and in terms of the taxonomic diffculty of the competition activities involved. On the basis of this description, some refections are added concerning additional options that can be identifed in connection with the Cankar Award Competition, from testing reading strategies to verifying language competence, (inter)cultural awareness and informedness linked to the knowledge of literature as a system.
Slovenščina na poklicni maturi
Authors: Hodak Marjana
Published: September 2024

Since 2002, pupils in vocational upper secondary education have been required to pass a vocational matura examination that comprises a written and an oral part. The written part is external, with the exam materials and assessment instructions being prepared by the National Committee for the Vocational Matura for the subjects of Slovene and Slovene as a second language. The oral exam is carried out internally, and organised and prepared in terms of content by school teachers. The article presents a detailed analysis of the written exam, the degree of cognitive diffculty of tasks in the non-literary text analysis, and the success of the candidates in task solving.
Položaj priseljenskih jezikov v Sloveniji
Authors: Medvešek Mojca , Bešter Romana
Published: September 2024

The article deals with the status and use of the languages of immigrants and their descendants in Slovenia. It focuses on five areas: education, culture, religion, the media and the labour market. In addition to the legal and formal framework defining the status of immigrant languages and the opportunities for their development in the areas referred to, empirical data is presented on the actual use of immigrant languages and the perception, on the part of immigrants as well as their offspring, of the use and status of their mother tongues in Slovenia. Despite the state’s efforts to promote multilingualism, and its commitment to implementing the language rights of individuals and minority groups in Slovenia, the authors come to the conclusion that, in practice, Slovene society often fails to recognise the wider significance and value of immigrant languages.
Neprodani in trdni. Ja, seveda, potem pa svizec ... Osamosvajanje oglasnih sloganov v slovenskem jeziku
Authors: Polajnar Janja
Published: September 2024

The article presents advertising slogans in Slovenian that are becoming independent or lexicalized, i.e., they are used in new, mostly non-advertising contexts. On the basis of a comparison of research found in Slovenian and German literature on advertising quotes and quotation idioms, a model for describing the gradual lexicalization of advertising slogans has been developed (ad hoc slogan – permanent slogan – quotation idiom). Selected examples in Slovenian illustrate the use of independent and dependent slogans promoting Slovenian and foreign trademarks, including their various forms,variants and modifications. There is also a brief treatment of phraseological slogan models.
Partizanska zgodba v sodobnem slovenskem romanu
Authors: Zupan Sosič Alojzija
Published: September 2024

In the new millennium, the Partisan story has become very common in the contemporary Slovenian novel. As in the current social situation, the genre establishes different relationships towards the Partisan struggle for freedom in the following novels: Da me je strah? by Maruša Krese, Saga o kovčku by Nedeljka Pirjevec, Angel pozabe (Engel des Vergessens) by Maja Haderlap, Opoldne zaplešejo škornji by Zdenko Kodrič, Paloma negra by Miha Mazzini, Ubijanje kače by Jože Snoj and To noč sem jo videl by Drago Jančar. The relationships oscillate between ethical responsibility and historical memory through a reassessment of history to the point of relativising it in the sense of the demythologisation, profanation, exotification and poeticisation of the Partisan struggle.
Kratka proza Milene Mohorič od ekspresionistične vizije do realistične podobe življenja
Authors: Čeh Steger: Jožica
Published: September 2024

The article treats thematic-stylistic features of the short prose by Milena Mohorič from the interwar period, also revealing her as an author of prose poems. Mohorič was one of the most prominent authors of short prose focusing mainly on the world of bourgeoisie, but also on the rural-peasant environment of Eastern Slovenia. In addition, she wrote several short prose stories for young readers. Five years ago, Mohorič was rescued from more than half a century of oblivion by Lado Kralj and Peter Scherber, who made a selection of her short prose (Short Stories From the 1930s, 2010) and presented her primarily as the author of elegant and exciting middle class prose from the 1930s, written in a realistic style. The present contribution is focused on her literary beginnings, the conclusion being that, at the beginning of her literary career (between 1927 and 1929), she wrote subjective-expressive prose poems in which it is still possible to identify the stylistic sediments of impressionism and expressionism.
Karizma teorije
Authors: Juvan Marko
Published: September 2024

Against the background of the policing power of university discourse, the article discusses the prototypes and general roles of charismatic theorists from the 1960s to the present in the contexts of transformations of the university from its Humboldtian type based in the importance of national culture to its late-capitalist subjection to the neoliberal mercantilisation and globalisation of knowledge. Focused on the case study of the Slovenian literary theorist Dušan Pirjevec (1921–77) and the conditions of the communist policing of the university, the charisma of theory is explained as the theorist’s fascinating personal presence (working through the transfer with him/herself as the “subject who is supposed to know”) that imbues his/her texts with a quasi-metaphysical quality transgressing both the boundaries of any disciplinary knowledge and the “bureaucratised” position of average university teachers. In Pirjevec’s case, the charisma of theory is patterned on the figure of critical intellectuals, whereas in the neoliberal present, it is produced or reinforced within the global star system, driven mostly by US-American universities and transnational scholarly publishing.
Zakaj je Aleksander Veliki praznih rok?
Authors: Svetina Ivo
Published: September 2024

The article analyses two essays by Taras Kermauner in which he discusses two Slovenian plays about the historical figure Alexander the Great: Alexander the Empty Handed (Aleksander praznih rok) by Vitomil Zupan and Alexander the Great (Aleksander Veliki) by Vladimir Kavčič. Particular emphasis is placed on the sections in which Kermauner addresses the topics of the revolution whose ideals are never fulfilled and the despot/dictator who, under the pretext of changing the world, sets out on a campaign of conquer and is sooner or later forced to eliminate his most faithful companions in arms.
Vzklitje slovenskega umetnostnozgodovinskega izrazja: terminološka podoba Flisovih Stavbinskih slogov
Authors: Dolšina Marjana
Published: September 2024

The formation of professional terminology is a prerequisite for the consolidation and development of any scientific discipline. It represents an essential tool for the dissemination of theoretical knowledge. The very first efforts to create the terminology of Slovenian art history can be traced back to the last quarter of the 19th century. The groundbreaking work Building Styles) (Stavbinski slogi) was accomplished by priest and art historian Janez Flis. It contains a comprehensive overview of the development of architecture, while at the same time offering a wide range of Slovenian terminological expressions related to the field, accompanied by the established terms from foreign languages, mainly German. An analysis of the vocabulary relating to gothic vaulting systems reveals the state of terminology in Slovenian art history in the initial phase of its development, before it became established as an academic discipline and was formally acknowledged by the opening of a new department at the University of Ljubljana in 1919.
Stičišča v »maturitetnih« romanih Otroške stvari in Otroštvo
Authors: Zupan Sosič Alojzija
Published: September 2024

The novels for the matriculation examination, Otroške stvari (2003, Things of Childhood) by Lojze Kovačič (1928–2004) and Otroštvo (1983, Childhood) by Nathalie Sarraute (1902–1999) have many parallels, which are divided into story and narrative parallels in the present article. Story parallels are connected by collective topics and the similarity of the main character: a child. The two novels share (common) themes such as childhood, love, friendship, individuality, creativeness, empathy, art, homeland, language and education. The common features of Bubi and Nataša are individuality, a strong personality, a rich imagination and a talent for art, as well as suffering due to conflicts between their parents. Apart from the story parallels, there are also narrative parallels: the poetics of modernism, a fragmentary style, description and dialogue as a means of making narrative closer to the present, an “essay style”, the point of view of a child, and the unreliable narrator. Both novels are modernistic autobiographical novels and Bildungsromans, in which the protagonists’ memories are stimulated by the poetics of the fragment; Kovačič’s memory acts as an accumulation of descriptions, while Sarraute activates memory through so-called “tropismes” (reminiscent words).
Današnje arabske države v učbenikih za slovenščino v osnovnih in srednjih šolah
Authors: Trškan Danijela
Published: September 2024

The paper presents literary texts that relate to today’s Arab countries and are included in the primary and secondary school textbooks for Slovenian language. Particular emphasis is placed on content in which young people can learn about history and culture, and about authors of literary works in today’s Arab countries. We believe that knowledge and understanding of other countries and ways of life help young people to understand their own culture and past. The selected literary passages in Slovenian textbooks show what kind of image of today’s Arab world students can gain in Slovenian lessons in primary and secondary schools of the Republic of Slovenia.
O učbenikih
Authors: Hladnik Miran
Published: September 2024

The article summarises the author’s experience in reviewing e-textbooks for Slovenian literature in elementary and secondary schools, as well as his experience in writing and editing academic textbooks. It criticises stereotype knowledge and expression, as well as the greed of publishing houses. Textbooks should be digital and open access.
Tantadrujevo iskanje sreče: od didaktike do interpretacije
Authors: Božič Zoran
Published: September 2024

The paper presents a case study of the school interpretation of a medium-length narrative text based on the principle of a learning chain of fragments equipped with questions for close reading. This didactic approach became widespread in Slovenia prior to the Second World War, achieving systematic implementation with the publication of two workbooks for home reading: Zlati poljub (Golden Kiss) and Poljub zlata (Kiss of Gold) in 1998. After almost two decades of school use, it is time for a more detailed assessment of the approach and its usefulness. The assessment has been undertaken partly through a comparison of two learning chains that were created based on the well-known short story Tantadruj by Kosmač. The paper concludes with an interpretative attempt that connects Tantadruj’s search for happiness with the narrator’s search for creative inspiration.
Ekokritiški pogled na poezijo Svetlane Makarovič
Authors: Badalič Tanja
Published: September 2024

The article first briefly presents ecocriticism, as a discipline studying the relationship between literature and the physical environment, as well as the practice of ecocriticism, which encourages more ethical interaction with the world. In addition, the role of literature in generating a new ethical and ecological consciousness is stressed. The main focus is on an ecocritical view of Svetlana Makarovič’s poetry, in order to determine the ethical and ecological message of her poetics. The article also deals with the author’s newspaper columns, which explicitly reveal her point of view on broader environmental issues.
Pesniške strategije Viljema Černa
Authors: Novak Popov Irena
Published: September 2024

The article analyses the essential poetic strategies in the poetry of Viljem Černo from Torre Valley in Venetian Slovenia. With the use of the plural form of lyrical voice, the poet allies himself with his people; with apostrophe he summons God and praises his homeland; with anaphora, refrain and syntactic-semantic parallelism he intensifies and unifies the represented universe and creates the rhythm of free verse; and with antithetic composition he confronts destructive forces. Textual genres, forms and modes of expression known from the church service address the taste of local readers, but the poet’s Torre Valley dialect is raised to the instrument of complex individual content with metaphoric and metonymic innovations.
Angeli in Ognjenci: narečna poezija Renata Quaglie v prevodih Marka Kravosa
Authors: Ježovnik Janoš
Published: September 2024

The article discusses the translations of Resian dialectal poetry into standard Slovenian. The thesis deals with Renato Quagliaʼs poems translated by Marko Kravos and published in the collection Baside, as well as in the publications Stara piščal and Pogled. The Resian dialect differs substantially from Slovenian standard language. Therefore, after a thorough preliminary elucidation of sociological and linguistic circumstances, an analysis of Resian dialect translation into Slovenian is presented.
Jože Koruza, Slovenska dramatika 1945–1965
Authors: Poniž Denis
Published: September 2024

The project Slovenian Literature 1945–1965 was published in two books in 1967 by a group of young literary scholars from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. One of the participants was Jože Koruza, who discussed contemporary drama. In order to analyse individual works and dramatists’ opuses, and to logically classify them into several semantically and/or conceptually related groups, he used a process that relied on three methodological bases. He placed writers into five morphological and conceptual formations and stressed both the similarities and the differences of the dramaturgical structures in their writing. He thus developed dramaturgical analysis when studying these texts and showed the features that separate dramatic works from other literary texts. However, he always critically reflected on his analytical processes, and, as much as was possible in the society of the time, developed them beyond ideological boundaries.
Osnove verzologije: iregularni verz in cezura
Authors: Bjelčevič Aleksander
Published: September 2024

We describe and define two concepts: irregular accentual-syllabic (syllabotonic) verse and caesura. Irregular accentual-syllabic verse is a type of poetic composition in which lines of the same rhythm (e.g., iambic) but very different lengths (e.g., 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 14 syllables) follow each other in an unpredictable order and have stanzas of variable lengths. This is not yet free verse, as it preserves iambic, trochaic or amphibrachic, etc. rhythm. In accentual-syllabic and syllabic versification, caesura is an obligatory word boundary at a fixed place in every line of a poem (in Serbo-Croatian deseterac and its trochaic imitations, it is after the 4th syllable). Therefore, caesura is not a pause. Slovenian metres with caesura are: trochaic 8-, 10-, 12-, 14-, 15-, 16-syllable lines with caesuras after the 8-th syllable; Nibelungen verse has a caesura after the 7th syllable, iambic 12-syllable alexandrine after the 6th syllable, amphibrachic 11- and 12-syllable lines after the 6th syllable, etc., whereas iambic pentameter has no caesura.
O koordiniranih in večkratnih k-vprašanjih v slovenščini
Authors: Mišmaš Petra
Published: September 2024

The article discusses multiple and coordinated wh-questions in Slovenian, focusing primarily on a comparison of the two based on the framework of generative grammar. On the basis of differences between coordinated and multiple wh-questions, we claim that, despite their superficial similarities, both groups need to be analysed separately in Slovenian as well. This conclusion is a starting point for further research of Slovenian coordinated wh-questions.
Pretnarjev delež pri protistavljanju slovenščine s poljščino
Authors: Nartnik Vlado
Published: September 2024

Despite his short life, Tone Pretnar made an essential contribution to the balance of Slovene studies in Poland and Polish studies in Slovenia. First, in 1980, he wrote a textbook entitled Slovene Language for Poles in collaboration with his Polish colleague Emil Tokarz. Then, in 1992, he compiled an extensive Slovene-Polish dictionary in collaboration with his Polish colleague Bożena Ostromęcka-Frączak. The latter is especially important due to the political and economic changes in Central Europe, and because the Polish language is the third most spoken Slavic langue and the seventh most spoken European language.
Med literaturo, spomini in znanstvenim delom: primer monografije Dimitrija Rupla Slovenija na svetovnem prizorišču
Authors: Žigon Tanja , Udovič Boštjan
Published: September 2024

The long line of books published by Slovenian diplomats (such asAndrej Capuder and Milan Jazbec) and politicians (includingJanez Drnovšek, Viktor Žakelj and Janez Janša) over the last two decades also includes Dimitrij Rupel’s 2011 work Slovenija na svetovnem prizorišču (Slovenia on the International Stage). Although at first sight the works of the aforementioned authors appear to be depictions of past events with a great degree of subjectivity, and could therefore be considered literary memoirs,theCooperative Online Bibliographic System and Services (COBISS) and theSlovenian Current Research Information System (SICRIS) databases tend to label them as specialist or scientific monographs. The present paper analyses and discusses the core characteristics of Rupel’sSlovenija na svetovnem prizoriščuand suggests possible solutions to the dilemma of whether it is best to classify it within the literary or semi-literary genre.
Iskanje bistva in povzemanje iz neumetnostnih besedil pri učencih 4. razreda osnovne šole
Authors: Pečjak Sonja , Pirc Tina
Published: September 2024

The article presents the partial results of research on the development of two reading strategies among fourth-grade primary school students: identifying the main ideas and summarising non-fiction texts. The results reveal that most fourth-grade students fail to master, or poorly master, these two strategies: 45% of the students surveyed found less than a third of the main ideas of the texts, 20% did not know how to summarise a text, and 65% made an incomplete summary. This indicates a need to systematically develop these abilities not only in Slovenian language, but in other subjects as well. The research also demonstrates which reading characteristics of students at this stage significantly predict the mastering of these two strategies.
Ideološko zaznamovana recepcija Steinbeckovih del v komunistični Vzhodni Evropi
Authors: Čerče Danica
Published: September 2024

Despite some differences between the ruling regimes in the countries of the former communist Europe, the critical reception of Steinbeck and his works in these countries shares several commonalities. The social and economic environment of one-dimensional ideological views, in which literary works were mainly assessed from the perspective of sociological discourse and evaluated on the basis of their political correctness, created an idealised perception of the writer, with his/her works being praised as exemplary of the role of literature in attaining political aims. The similarities in Steinbeck’s status in these countries are also evident after their transition to democracy. Following the decrease in the ideological manipulation of literature with the concomitant emphasis on its aesthetic conceptualisation, the whole region has experienced increased interest of translators and publishers in Steinbeck’s lesser-known works, which were previously marginalised due to their lack of ideological structures.
Enota analize spontanega govora: interakcija prozodije, pragmatike in skladnje
Authors: Zwitter Vitez Ana
Published: September 2024

The paper discusses the unit of analysis in spontaneous speech and proposes the term »spoken paragraph «, which is delimited on syntactic, pragmatic and prosodic criteria. Within the spoken paragraph, it is possible to identify elements such as the preamble, which comprises the pragmatic structures of formulation, including speaker attitude, and rheme, which can be analysed by means of traditional syntactic categories. Adopting the methodology of spoken paragraph analysis, we examine three spontaneous spoken conversations in Slovenian. The results show that short preambles and subordinate rhemes dominate in the corpus, while also revealing that the genre of discourse has an important impact on the structure of the spoken paragraph. We can conclude that a conversation in which differing opinions are confronted tends to contain preambles that are longer than the subsequent argumentation or narration.
Prostorsko dojemanje in vzročnost nastopa čustev v luči glagolsko-samostalniških konstrukcij s predložnimi zvezami v slovenščini
Authors: Będkowska-Kopczyk Agnieszka
Published: September 2024

The article investigates metaphorical verbal-nominal constructions consisting of prepositional phrases with nouns of emotion, and verbs expressing different types of abstract motion: caused motion (e.g., voditi koga v jezo lit. ‘lead someone into anger’), autonomous motion (e.g., pasti v obup ‘fall into despair’), and self-propelled motion (e.g., vstopiti v ljubezen lit. ‘enter love’). These constructions express an event of emotional arousal and are motivated by the metaphor »a change of state is a change of location«. By incorporating a cognitive syntactic analysis into the lexical analysis, the author sheds light on 1) the spatial basis of linguistic representations of emotion concepts and the event of emotional arousal, and 2) the conceptualisation of the event in terms of causality. The study confirms the embodied nature of metaphors expressing events in the abstract domain of emotion.
Besedilne vrste v slovenskem besediloslovju
Authors: Krajnc Ivič Mira
Published: September 2024

Textual types are the result of established acts of linguistic interaction within an individual communication field and are constituted by inclusively connected characteristic functional, media-related, thematic features and features depending on the shape of the text’s structure. The classification and typology of textual types is therefore dependent on the communication field and prototypical text-internal and text-external elements.
Literarnodidaktične paradigme in najpomembnejša literarna besedila pri pouku književnosti na slovenskih gimnazijah
Authors: Zajc Ivana
Published: September 2024

The article presents the results of a survey conducted among Slovenian language professors in high schools, indicating a predominant emphasis on the cultural-literary didactic model that aligns with the systemic didactics of literature. Subsequent results are related to the model of personal growth, corresponding to the reception didactics of literature. The article then provides an overview of the literary texts considered by Slovenian language professors as the most important for study in high schools, primarily focusing on classic literary works by Slovenian and foreign authors.
Sur la nécessité d’une éducation de qualité dans la vie des femmes d’après les romans André (1835) de George Sand et Marta (1873) d’Eliza Orzeszkowa
Authors: Kędzia-Klebeko Beata
Published: September 2024

Among others, the nineteenth century brought ideas about social progress, including these important for the emancipation of women, such as a model of education that guarantees girls and women economic stability, financial independence and the right to freedom of choice. Through the comparative perspective of the novels of two emblematic women writers, G. Sand in France and E. Orzeszkowa in Poland, we’d like to show how European literature is involved in the social cause of popularising the idea that knowledge is a basic condition of everyone’s life. Our point of reference will be the novels André (1835) and Marta (1873) and their analysis. The female protagonists, faced with their lack of knowledge, distance themselves from professional life by choosing to marry. This alienation, underpinned by ignorance, takes on a symbolic dimension of the end of physical and spiritual life in the literary vision of French and Polish women writers.
Des vocations en échec ? Le destin de l’écrivain et de la littérature dans Un coco de génie de Louis Dumur
Authors: Opiela‐Mrozik Anna
Published: September 2024

The article presents the profile of Louis Dumur, a French writer of Swiss origin, one of the founders and indefatigable editor of new Mercure de France. Although Dumur was an average poet and playwright and author of nationalist texts, he wrote a novel Un coco de génie (1902), in which he addresses the issue of the writer’s vocation and the mission of literature. The story of a seedman’s son, who suddenly discovers his literary talent and faces reluctance from the uncultivated local community, is a satire on the petty bourgeoisie society. It is all the more virulent because the young creator turns out to be a somnambulist who recreates masterpieces of world literature. This unconscious rewriting leads the first-person narrator of the novel to reflect on the process of creating itself. Thus Dumur anticipates the appearance of the concept of intertextuality and the text being a mosaic of quotations.
La fiction et les sciences. Palafox d’Éric Chevillard
Authors: Maziarczyk Anna
Published: September 2024

This article focuses on the role of science in Palafox by Éric Chevillard. Its objective is to study the way in which the writer exploits it on the diegetic and narrative levels to create unparalleled prose, transcending the usual literary canons. The scientific element functions here in a different way than in popular stories and plays a role similar to the Oulipian constraint: it serves as a textual generator supposed to produce a completely original novel which eschews rigid structures and classic narrative mechanisms. Drawing on research relating to the scientific novel, this article ultimately seeks to demonstrate that Palafox, inspired by the life sciences, is an ecological novel which, without tedious didacticism, encourages us to reflect on the way in which people treat living creatures that have accompanied them for centuries – animals.
Analysis of landscape structure changes in Marmara Lake and its surrounding area using remote sensing data
Authors: Günbey Kübra , Böcük Harun
Published: September 2024

This study investigates temporal changes in the landscape structure of Lake Marmara (Gölmarmara, Manisa, Türkiye), a designated bird sanctuary and registered wetland, over 10 years period using remote sensing techniques. The analysis employed the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) on satellite imagery from 2015 and 2024, processed through the ArcGIS/ArcMap software, to assess landscape metrics within the study area. The Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) was also utilized to evaluate the interactions between the water body, wetlands, and their surroundings. The findings were further supported by surface temperature analysis (STA) and comparative data. NDVI analysis revealed a 39.38% reduction in the Lake Marmara water body, an 11.09% decrease in forested areas, and an 8.28% decline in tree/shrub areas over 10 years. The dominant tree species in the forest vegetation was Pinus brutia, while other prevalent species included Quercus coccifera, Cistus creticus, Pistacia terebinthus, Pistacia lentiscus, Arbutus andrachne, Arbutus unedo, Olea europaea, Erica arborea, Phillyrea latifolia, and Sarcopoterium spinosum. Conversely, residential areas expanded by 21.21%, and agricultural areas increased by 4.11%. NDWI analysis indicated a 14.46% reduction in moderately dry areas and a 41.92% increase in dry areas. Furthermore, surface temperature data showed an increase over the 10 years. This study is expected to contribute significantly to the field by providing insights into sustainable land use and planning strategies. It offers a comprehensive perspective on wetland management and conservation of biological diversity by elucidating the temporal and spatial relationships between wetlands and their environment, considering both ecological and anthropogenic factors.