bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
O uspešnosti dvotirnega komunikacijskega modela književne vzgoje: rezultati empirične raziskave
Authors: Kordigel Metka , Ropič Marija
Published: September 2024

The article highlights that the communication model of literary education in nine-grade primary school may lead to difficulties for a significant number of children, since they were unable to develop their ability to read literary texts in a non-stimulating literary environment, which is necessary for a successful involvement in literary education. The authors then discuss which literary reception skills children developed in a stimulating literary environment and provide a solution to the problem: a two-tier communication model of literary education. The second part of the article focuses on the results of an empirical study measuring and comparing the success of the two-tier communication model and the classical one-tier communication model of literary education, proving that the two-tier communication model provides equally good, or in most cases better, results when pupils’ progress of individual segments relating to reception as defined by the curriculum for nine-grade primary school was assessed. At the same time considerably better results were attained when the ability of verbalising imaginary worlds and inventive creation of imaginary worlds was measured.
Slovenščine tujejezičnih govorcev
Authors: Pirih Svetina Nataša , Ferbežar Ina
Published: September 2024

The beginning of the article is rather provocative, questioning whether the language spoken by foreign speakers of Slovene really is Slovene, and what its features are. Six excerpts from texts produced by foreign speakers of Slovene were studied to show that there are as many varieties of Slovene as there are its speakers. In addition, the article illustrates how native speakers of Slovene receive and evaluate texts produced by foreign speakers, and how tolerant they are in doing so.
Pregled tipologije sodobne slovenske kratke proze (osemdesetih in devetdesetih let 20. stoletja)
Authors: Bošnjak Blanka
Published: September 2024

The typology of contemporary Slovene short prose in the eighties and nineties of the twentieth century is made in accordance with the distinctive features correlated primarily to two basic paradigmatic structures: short prose is placed in the first paradigm, with predominantly new literary directions within the period of Slovene postmodernism, therefore the postmodernist type of prose falls into this category. The second paradigm covers the texts with notable spiritual and historical foundations of past literary directions (realism, existentialism, modernism) which are present in contemporary Slovene short prose in their modified form, frequently as some kind of an upgrade. Therefore the following types of contemporary Slovene short prose can be distinguished between in the second paradigm: ultra-modernist, irrationalistic-mystical, and neo-realistic, which covers the texts of minimalist and post-existentialist type.
Mhm, ja, no, dobro, glejte, eee ...: diskurzni označevalci v telefonskih pogovorih
Authors: Verdonik Darinka
Published: September 2024

The article is a quantitative and qualitative approach to an analysis of expressions such as ja, mhm, aha, aja, ne?, no, eee, dobro/v redu/okej/prav, glejte/poglejte, veste, mislim, zdaj, which are referred to as discourse markers in similar studies abroad. In the analysed telephone conversations in tourism these expressions do not contribute much to the content of the conversation, but are used primarily in their pragmatic functions: enabling a link with the propositional content pointing either forward or backward, helping to develop relations between the participants engaged in a conversation, aiding the expression of the speaker's relation to the content, and helping organise the course of discourse (exchange of roles, transitions between different topics, a transition to the end of the conversation and similar). The use of these expressions is quite frequent, since they represent almost 14 per cent of all words in the corpus of 15,000 words. They are usually placed at the end between utterances, loosely positioned in the structure of the utterance.
Historična perspektiva preučevanja jezikoslovnih ved. Nekateri vidiki antičnega razumevanja jezika
Authors: Grgič Matejka
Published: September 2024

When studying the history of linguistics, two options seem to be obvious: on the one hand, a better insight is gained into the sciences which have contributed to the development of modern linguistics, while, on the other hand, we can almost rediscover those studies, which are not part of the linguistic tradition in the West. This article is a schematic portrayal of some linguistic sciences of the Antiquity. Part of these can easily be placed within the Western epistemological context, since, in many aspects, they represent the very origins of this tradition. Such historical perspective, however, proves to be much more problematic with some other sciences or their studies, such as semiotics and so-called metaphysical etymology, for instance. Questions arising in such cases are: How to study these sciences? How to define them? Is it at all reasonable to study them?
Med lokalnim in nacionalnim: Srbi v Beli krajini in njihova jezikovna identiteta
Authors: Petrović Tanja
Published: September 2024

Through analysis of the features of language used by members of the Serbian community living in the Bela krajina region, the author of this article shows how the language ideology predominant in modern European nations – where the standard and national language is the most prestigious means of communication and the monolingual situation is accepted as the only natural and desired state – has a vital impact on the perception of a language by its speakers and consequently also on their communication strategies. This is particularly true of the speakers of minority and non-standard languages. In this context, an example of language replacement by the Serbs in Bela krajina, which has been going on intensely since the Second World War, can be treated as one of the illustrations of the process in which this local community is becoming part of wider, i.e. national social structures. Slovenia’s integration into the European Union has hardly had an influence on the linguistic situation and the direction of language replacement for the Serbs in Bela krajina (similar is true of other local linguistic communities in EU member countries), since in the European Union, regardless of its institutionalised orientation towards supra-national values, the ideology of standard languages remains predominant.
Slovenščina in njeno poučevanje pri slovenskih zdomcih: raziskava med učenci dopolnilnega pouka slovenskega jezika in kulture v Baden-Württembergu
Authors: Bitenc Maja
Published: September 2024

At the beginning the article gives a brief description of the basic concepts from the field of languages in contact, ways of using Slovene in Germany, and ways of learning Slovene in this country. The main part of the article provides data on the courses of Slovene language and culture abroad, their historical development and current organisation, while the empirical part describes the design, course and results of a case study carried out in the spring of 2004 at Baden-Württemberg. Seventy children between the ages of 6 and 18, who take Slovene language and culture courses, participated in the case study by completing a questionnaire. The article shows knowledge and the use of German and Slovene by the participants of the study, their views on the Slovene language, Slovene identity and various factors related to this matter, and their relation to Slovene language and culture courses.
Rekonstruiranje zgodovinskih jezikovnih situacij: metode, problemi in primeri
Authors: Ahačič Kozma
Published: September 2024

The article presents some methods, problems and rules of reconstructing historical linguistic situations within historical socio-linguistics. It focuses on determining language use according to social status (farmers, urban population, nobility), looking also at the more complex linguistic repertoires of educated individuals living in a particular period. The article calls attention to the influence of the educational process on a linguistic situation, the role played by the use of different languages within the same text or book in observing the linguistic situation, the differences between the text producers and addressees of the literary texts of a period, the need for specific treatment of normative works with respect to their influence on the historical linguistic situation, and the reflection of the linguistic situation in the discourse of the time (especially terminology), while pointing out the problematic use of the labels for language, dialect and speech within a given period.
Pimlico in Neznosna lahkost bivanja kot maturitetna romana
Authors: Zupan Sosič Alojzija
Published: September 2024

Pimlico by Milan Dekleva and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera are modern European novels which can be successfully understood only through modern interpretation. Such interpretation includes research of narrative procedures (as applied in essays and in lyrics, and a distance to the narrative) and the analysis of the literary persona and chronotope. Also speaking in favour of school interpretation of modern novels is the comparative method, which makes the multi-layered nature of the novels treated at Matura exams this year easier to understand.
Novomedijsko besedilo
Authors: Strehovec Janez
Published: September 2024

New media texts encountered on smart displays are not a continuation of printed textuality with a different means, but are formed in a new language which can be adequately explained using the basic concepts of new media theory. The present article examines the special features pertaining to new media textuality and hybrid artistic and literary projects which are based on text, primarily as a challenge to the readers-users entering through the navigational devices and interfaces into an intimate relationship with these texts, writing into them, and by so doing becoming the producers of such textuality themselves (as in the case of web blogs and Wikipedia). New media textuality also proves a challenge to various fields of linguistics (in particular socio-linguistics) and the theory of digital literatures. Nevertheless, what needs to be taken into account in order to expound the destiny of that which is verbal at the time of the new media, are the approaches applied in the studies of techno culture and the internet, and the philosophy of new media and technologies. This is why the present article makes use of the methodological apparatus applied in various theoretical disciplines, and frequently crosses the areas of their analyses.
A. T. Linhart in problem meščanske žaloigre
Authors: Poniž Denis
Published: September 2024

The article discusses a youthful bourgeoistragedy written in German entitled Miss Jenny Love (1779), which represents the beginning of the playwriting by Anton Tomaž Linhart. Although the bourgeoistragedy has been present in the Slovene literary and historical consciousness since 1918, when it was discovered in Vienna by France Kidrič, to date its reception has been rather poor (the play was staged only once, at the Slovene National Theatre, marking the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Dramatic Society in 1967). The article aims to first unveil the reason for such reception, and then to discuss tragedy as part of the German pre-Romantic and Sturm und Drang bourgeois tragedy. This, together with the works by Lessing, Klinger and Wagner, was the most significant stimulation for Linhart; the article shows how he applied various features of the bourgeois tragedy in his playwriting, and what significance they had for his plays. This is why his play is categorised as a typical example of bourgeois tragedy.
Diskurzivne značilnosti sms-ov
Authors: Jarnovič Urška
Published: September 2024

The article examines text messages, signifying a new form of communication, determined by the global, i.e. technical, technological and social aspects of using mobile phones on the one hand, while, on the other hand, expressing individual users’ traits. The aim of the article is to show the results of a questionnaire on the language of text messaging, mainly focusing on the relation to standard language and the use of punctuation, interspaces, and abbreviations applied in the production of text messages. The author also aims to demonstrate that the language of the text message may depend on the individual's education and understanding of such communication, even though it is more correlated to one's creativity of expression – which indicates an additional dimension of the individual's competence in writing – than to the question of using standard or colloquial language.
Načini prevajanja francoskih glagolov iz spremnih stavkov premega govora v treh slovenskih prevodih Flaubertove Madame Bovary,
Authors: Mezeg Adriana
Published: September 2024

The article explores a contrastive and comparative analysis focusing on translations of French reporting verbs and other verbs introducing direct speech in the three selected translations of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. The research, based on the author's own corpus, concludes that the most recent translation by Suzana Koncut is mainly loyal to the original, while the two previous translations by Vladimir Levstik are freer in this respect. The result of different translation approaches (i.e. loyalty or freedom in relation to the original) is a different final product, which is also evident from the discussed Slovene translations of Madame Bovary.
Eliptične strukture in njihove metabesedilne vloge
Authors: Smolej Mojca
Published: September 2024

In addition to various lexical, prosodic and other linguistic elements, grammatical or syntactic structures also reveal metatextuality. The most noticeable are various elliptical structures in which the verb is partially or fully omitted. Verbless or partially verbless structures occur in a variety of metadiscourse functions: they show the speaker's attitude to the content and the listener, foreground the content, announce different degrees of textual structure, and bring the textual world closer to the listener.
Raziskave metabesedilnosti v uporabnem jezikoslovju: pregled področja in predstavitev raziskovalnega dela za slovenščino
Authors: Pisanski Peterlin Agnes
Published: September 2024

The paper presents an overview of approaches to metadiscourse within applied linguistics. After discussing some of the questions surrounding the definition of this concept, the paper focuses on an outline of the most influential theoretical models of metadiscourse. Selected methodological issues, above all those connected with corpus research, are then presented. Finally, an overview of studies dealing with the topic of metadiscourse in the Slovene language from various aspects is provided.
Naslavljanje pri predajanju, pridobivanju in ohranjanju vloge govorca na parlamentarnih razpravah
Authors: Modrijan Nina
Published: September 2024

The article foregrounds a language analysis of political discourse, proving, to be more precise, a portrayal of standard usage of polite forms of address in parliamentary debates (at the sessions of the Slovene National Assembly). In addition, forms specific to political discourse are shown: political (im-)politeness, manipulation with forms of address, use of pronouns used by politicians when addressing themselves and their political opponents by making a distinction between “we” and “they”, and the indirect way of communication, which, due to a frequent use of metaphors and other stylistic devices, is one of the principle features pertaining to political speech. The materials used for the analysis are literal transcriptions from parliamentary sessions.
Miti v dramatiki Vena Tauferja in Daneta Zajca
Authors: Pečovnik Tina
Published: September 2024

The article analyses a projection of myth and its transformation in the works by Veno Taufer and Dane Zajc. When bringing to light problems concerning a theoretical definition of myths, the author of the article makes use of a pluralistic combination of three theories which are then tested on Taufer’s play entitled Prometej ali tema v zenici sonca (Prometheus or The Dark in the Pupil of the Sun in English) and on Zajc’s Kálevála. A comparison is made on whether the myth is the framework of the play filled with the authors’ own themes, or whether the authors merely intertwine fragments of mythical motifs into their playwriting. The article also shows which myths the authors employ and how they use them. With the theory of intertextuality the article aims to make uniform confusion related to terminology and meaning as far as mythical motifs are concerned, and to define their intertextual styles. First, it compares a proto-text with the author’s rewritten text, and then focuses on the similarities and differences between the two texts. It explores and compares the authors’ mythologisation and places them within the context of their auto-poetic styles and the wider social context of the 1960s and 1980s.
Testiranje jezikovne zmožnosti učencev dvojezične osnovne šole v Špetru
Authors: Kerin Urška
Published: September 2024

Studying the language ability in Slovene of students attending a bilingual primary school in Špeter gives an insight into the school’s success in this area. Having a written test is the easiest way to ensure the objectivity, reliability and validity of the test. Such criteria are a prerequisite for a successful test. It is possible to opt for a standardised, frequently used language test, or alternately, a special written test can be compiled. With the tasks of various stages, proceeding from receptive to productive, both grammar and communicative abilities can be examined. Test results can help discern the flaws of the existing school curriculum and help establish needed improvements in teaching.
Viri za kulturološko interpretacijo frazeoloških enot
Authors: Kržišnik Erika
Published: September 2024

The paper is a continuation of the consideration of the cultural aspect in discussions on phraseology in Kržišnik 2005. It follows from the presupposition that, due to their characteristics, phraseological units are particularly suitable for the transformation of cultural signs into language form, and are therefore often bearers of cultural connotation. Possible sources for the culture-specific interpretation of phraseology are verified on examples of Slovene phraseology. These sources are based on all three fundamental culture-specific approaches: ethnolinguistic, linguocultural and constrastive.
Nasilje v Cankarjevi drami Kralj na Betajnovi in vzporednice z evropsko literaturo
Authors: Avsenik Nabergoj Irena
Published: September 2024

The tragic images and fates of perpetrators and victims of violence indicate how current the theme of violence is in Slovene and world literature, as well as in numerous areas of knowledge, such as psychology, philosophy, theology, sociology, law, political science, etc. The present article deals with the real and symbolic presentation of violence in Cankar’s drama The King of Betajnova (Ottakring 1901) and in certain other classic European works, focusing above all on psychological and ethical aspects. From an intertextual perspective, the figures of the perpetrator of violence (Kantor) and his victims (Maks, Nina, Francka, etc.) have parallels in images of violence, perpetrators and victims in certain European authors whom Cankar read (Hamlet by W. ShakespearePillars of Society and The Wild Duck by H. IbsenThe Power of Darkness byL. N. Tolstoy and Crime and Punishment byF. M. Dostoyevsky). Comparison of these works exposes numerous motivic-thematic similarities, while at the same time shedding light on the special qualities of Cankar’s creative reception. While taking into account the collective dimensions of violence, Cankar focused primarily on subjective aspects and emphasized the ethical dimension, the consequences of violence for the human conscience. In the treatment of violence in The King of Betajnova both Cankar’s close connection and his break with Nietzsche’s philosophy of the superman are evident.
Krst pri Savici in Sedem sinov: razumevanje, doživljanje, vrednotenje
Authors: Božič Zoran
Published: September 2024

Empirical research of the cognitive response to the verse narrative of Prešeren and Žemlja shows that for second year high school pupils Baptism at the Savica is considerably more demanding than The Seven Sons on all three levels of reading comprehension (literal, interpretive and applied), a fact that we can attribute to the significantly more archaic quality and above all to the metaphorical nature of the language of Prešeren’s poetry. FurthermoreThe Seven Sons is a text that offers high school pupils more scope for emotional identification, whether with individual literary characters or through the rejection of their inappropriate acts. For second year high school pupilsBaptism at the Savica is undoubtedly a much more artistic text than The Seven Sons, but in their opinion Žemlja’s writing surpasses that of Prešeren because the story is more convincing, the literary characters are better illustrated and the events are more current. ThereforeThe Seven Sons could be included in the grammar school curriculum as an additional text.
Orfejev spev in Evridikine metamorfoze
Authors: Samide Irena
Published: September 2024

Ensuing from the mythological tradition of the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, the article offers the possibility of a different reading of the classical myth: rather than speaking about a romantic love relationship we can instead speak about a much more prosaic productional relationship between the two protagonists, in which it is the role of Eurydice that is decisive for the creative process – the lover, the spiritual friend, the colleague, the assistant, the scribe, the collector, the patron, the muse. In spite of the fact that in (literary) history Eurydice’s voice has in the past been largely mute, for a relevant view of cultural history it is essential that we also hear her song.
Nekaj kontrastivnih beležk o italijanščini in slovenščini in nekaj opažanj o jezikovni produkciji pri govorcih slovenščine v Italiji
Authors: Ožbot Martina
Published: September 2024

The paper presents some observations on systemic differences between Slovene and Italian which have been developed on the basis of the study of language production in students of Slovene, who mainly come from bilingual Slovene-Italian families. From early childhood, they have mostly been in very close contact with Slovene and at the same time with Italian. The latter is for many of them their primary language (at least for some communicative functions), which is also reflected in their use of Slovene. In addition to texts produced by students, the analysis includes texts by writers from the border region, in which various features can be found which are similar to those present in the texts written by students. Following from this analysis, the author singles out some contrastively relevant features of Italian and Slovene concerning aspects of grammar (punctuation, word order, pronouns, prepositions, the use of verb forms, etc.) and idiom, thus trying to sketch out a possible outline of an Italian-Slovene text grammar.
Motivno-tematski razvojni lok poetike Erike Vouk,
Authors: Makuc Ana
Published: September 2024

The present paper investigates the poetic opus of the contemporary Slovene poet and recipient of two prestigious literary prizes, Erika Vouk, from the perspective of internal construction and from the point of view of the speech of the lyrical subject. In terms of motive, idea and theme a common thread can be observed through the collections of poems, illustrating their developmental arc. Even in her first work the author presents the essential elements of her writing, which are simply expanded and deepened through her subsequent poetic opus. On the basis of the thematic groups of love, sensuousness, pain and death there emerges an awareness of the transience of time, an attempt to overcome this with faith in the existence of transcendence, and a final acknowledgement of ignorance with a slide into poetic silence. Due to a strengthened awareness of transience the poet begins to address the theme of memory, establishing a complex relationship between memory and the present, which leads to the path of poetry as a means for overcoming the outflow of time.
Eksplicitnost pri prevajanju slovenskih narodnih jedi,
Authors: Šumrada Simona
Published: September 2024

The purpose of the article is to shed light on the problem of the presentation of Slovene cultural realities in tourism-related texts and to establish the need for greater professionalism. In an analysis of French and English translations of Slovene national dishes in menus of Slovene restaurants and in print and Internet publications about Slovenia it is evident that less explicit translation approaches prevail, such as approximate translation, literal translation and description. Furthermore, as many as seventeen various translation solutions appear for the same dish. All of this contributes to a loss of identity and recognition of national dishes. In comparable texts from foreign sources these kinds of cultural realities are presented more explicitly, most frequently in the form of a pairing of the cited form along with a description, which enables both recognition of the dish and understanding. In the article we will attempt to indicate certain key reasons why we can expect more explicit and unified translation solutions in the translations of texts of an informative nature, such as the above mentioned tourism-related texts.
Koncept mrežnega pomenskega slovarja slovenskih besed
Authors: Zupan Jure
Published: September 2024

The article presents the possibility of linking words and looking them up according to meanings, which is not possible in printed dictionaries. The advantages and possibilities offered by a dictionary organised in this way are described and a working version of a network organised dictionary of Slovene words in computer accessible form is presented. The purpose of the network dictionary presented is to offer users information about individual words not only in the sense of lemmatisation (of a dictionary headword), in which not only the word class of the treated word is stated but also the semantically connected words of a broad and narrow meaning. In the described working version more than 5000 words are ordered in a semantic network, most of them nouns. The working version is available to users on a CD that can be obtained by interested readers from the author at his address.
Poimenovanja argumentacije v referenčnem korpusu FidaPLUS
Authors: Dukič Davorin
Published: September 2024

With an analysis of authentic text extracts in the FidaPLUS Slovene language reference corpus, the article determines whether Slovene speakers are aware of the difference in meaning between argumentation, (logical) demonstration and (rhetorical) persuasion, as explained in a short overview of the theoretical concepts. The use of designations for the three language activities mentioned is surveyed, with the goal of ascertaining whether it is a case of synonymous or non-synonymous use. The research shows that the level of awareness of the differences between these three related language activities is, judging by the use of their designations, at a low level.
Poti do literarne interpretacije: skica ob Francoskem testamentu Andreïa Makina
Authors: Pregelj Barbara
Published: September 2024

In the article an interpretive tool/framework is presented that attempts to aid in-depth reading. To illustrate this tool/framework, the article takes this year’s baccalaureate text, the novel Le testament français by Andreï Makine. Referring to this novel the article outlines the individual levels of interpretation and specifically addresses the analytical part of understanding texts, which, with slow, thorough reading, placement in a broader context and the determining of the theme through the structure of excerpts from the text, represents a framework for literary interpretation. Attention is drawn to the most important characteristics of the external construction of Le testament français (genre syncretism, the significance of the title and the introductory citations), the difficulty of determining the theme (of an excerpt) of the text (isotopy, topic, key words, principal and secondary themes) and certain evident formal characteristics (smaller units, the relationship between these units, lexicon, parts of speech, the use of verb tenses, tropes, means of verbalisation, narrative technique, the category of space and time, the narrator).
Nezanesljivi pripovedovalec v sodobnem slovenskem romanu
Authors: Harlamov Aljoša
Published: September 2024

The unreliable narrator is the result of the complex processes that unfold in the act of literary communication between the author and his or her context, the literary work, its context and its implicit author in the meaning of the work as a whole, and between the reader and his or her context. It is possible to determine three types of unreliable narrator: the unreliable judge, the unreliable interpreter and the unreliable reporter. Each of these can be located in the contemporary Slovene novel: the unreliable judge in Hočevar’s trilogy Porkasvet, Za znoret (Blimey, the World to Drive You Crazy) and Rožencvet (Flowerblossom), the unreliable interpreter in Sosič’s novel Balerina, Balerina (Ballerina, Ballerina), and the unreliable reporter in Möderndorfer’s Opoldne nekega dne (One Day at Noon).
Koroška knjižna različica slovenskega jezika kot bistvena sestavina Prežihove literature
Authors: Irma Vačun Kolar Marija
Published: September 2024

Prežih’s individual, artistic use of language and style signifies and represents a verbal art as well as a norm established and maintained by the writer’s literary texts. I seek to emphasise that Prežih’s language and style mark the Slovene literary-cultural phenomenon, created with a unique selection and formation of means of expression, to a large extent extracted from the Carinthian literary version of Slovene language, if not literary immanence itself.
Folklorni in živalski slovar v ustvarjalnem opusu Svetlane Makarovič
Authors: Golež Kaučič Marjetka
Published: September 2024

The article deals with selected texts from the creative opus of the diverse works by Svetlana Makarovič and their link with Slovene folklore on themotivic-thematic level, with the use of folklore methods and by relating the identification of folklore elements to their interpretation, as well as onthe intertextual level, with an analysis of the antecedents from folk poetry in the poet’s texts in terms of content, form and quotation. In additionto an in-depth analysis of three texts and the detection of bestiary in Makarovič’s poetry, the article also uses the concepts of zoo folklore, animalculture and ecocriticism. The first subject of analysis is the dramatic text Mrtvec pride po ljubico (1982), based on the ballad from folkmythology with the same title, which, integrated into a new poetic and genre text, establishes a dialogue with tradition, while at the same time theoriginal text undergoes manifold creative “deformations” and gains new conceptual and semantic dimensions. The article then turns to an analysis of themeta-text Katalena (2009), a contemporary narrative text that has the family ballad Z roparjem omožena as a prototext, which itapproaches in terms of the essence of the content, while departing from it in genre and in the treatment of the story. The third text, the radio playŽivali pokopavajo lovca (2002), is a transformation of the folk animal ballad Lovčev pogreb, in which Makarovič introduces the folk poemin her syncretic image of the text and of melody, while also adding her own conceptual and semantic emphases. This text can also be read as anecocritical text.
Cankarjevo priznanje – s poti
Authors: Lah Klemen
Published: September 2024

The article summarises and clarifes the premises of the programme for the reform of the Cankar Award Competition that was laid out in the period 2007–2008 by a working group within the framework of the Slavic Society of Slovenia and the regional Slavic Society of Ljubljana. The reform programme was based on the comprehensive encouragement of creativity. It is therefore still topical today and could function as a stimulus for considering other organisational and content categories for the Cankar Award Competition.
Gledališki lektor – njegova funkcija in namen v sodobnosti
Authors: Vrtačnik Martin
Published: September 2024

The emergence of the role of theatre language consultant (“lektor”) in the early 20th century in the Slovene drama theatre is linked to the establishment of a special awareness with regard to the Slovene language on stage and to Slovene public speech in general. In the hundred years since then, the role of theatre “lektor” has changed from that of a guardian of the pronunciation norms of an endangered language to that of a stage speech style editor. This was, among other things, the result of the specific socio-historical conditions of the 20th century and of the development of (Slovene) linguistics. Therefore, the role of the modern theatre “lektor” is (once more) reconsidered in the present article, which opens with an elaboration of the nuances implied in the word “lektor” (in relation to the actual tasks ascribed to the theatre language consultant), then goes on to analyse certain theatre reviews and, finally, presents (professional) contributions of “lektors”, who indicate firsthand the modern trends in the shaping of stage speech. On the basis of the topics presented, the conclusion proposes a neologism to name one set of the function, or tasks, performed by the theatre language consultant or “lektor”, i.e., “the designer of speech”.
Prvi pesemski cikli slovenskih pesnic
Authors: Žerjal Pavlin Vita
Published: September 2024

After Josipina Turnograjska’s cyclic poem Always Beautiful Is Nature from 1851, Luiza Pesjak and Pavlina Pajk were next among the first Slovene women poets to compose lyrical cycles in the second half of the 19th century. In so doing, they relied on both foreign and domestic examples of cyclic poems that were initially inspired by Prešeren’s cycles. In part, they used typical themes of the age (patriotism, travel impressions, seasons of the year), but, in the extended cyclic form, they also presented a specifically female experience (attitude to marriage, motherhood, their own lives). Since both authors are well known, perhaps even primarily known, as narrative writers, it is not surprising that they chose a syntagmatic poem cycle that allows modification of the lyrics into a narrative structure. The fact that they chose the rational form of the cycle also reflects their literary ambition.
Iskanje identitete v romanih Republika jutranje rose, Ločil bom peno od valov in Ki jo je megla prinesla, Jezik in slovstvo
Authors: Kostanjšek Sanja
Published: September 2024

Literature has always been concerned with the issue of the identity of the literary subject. With reference to three contemporary Slovene novels – The Republic of Morning Dew by Vladimir P. Štefanec, and She Who Was Brought by Fog and I Shall Separate Foam from the Waves by Feri Lainšček – the article presents struggles both within the individual and between the individual and the group in the context of the complexity of the concept of identity. In terms of the development of the personal/spiritual intelligence of literary characters, the dynamic structure of identity can be perceived as a lifelong process, characterised by crises, conflicts, active and passive periods, and processes of resistance to and acceptance of different social roles, moral principles or lifestyles.
Srbski literarni postmodernizem – želja ali zgodovinsko dejstvo?
Authors: Tomazin Tanja
Published: September 2024

The article deals with Serbian literary postmodernism as a literary current and as a literary period in the 1980s and early 1990s. With its transformed poetics, postmodern literature, particularly prose, represented a challenge to Serbian literary science, while even becoming a problem for the existing sociocultural circles due to its apolitical nature in the context of the political conditions of the time. The present paper highlights several reasons for this, taking into consideration especially Serbian, but also Slovenian literary criticism. At the same time, it attempts to dissolve the dilemma as to whether literary postmodernism, with all of its specifics, has actually occurred in Serbia – which, in the last decades of the 20th century, experienced great political-historical upheavals, and thus remained distanced from the state that social theoreticians call postmodern – or whether it was just a case of the desire of the Serbian literary minority for literature to free itself from the pressures of the political and historical reality.
Lipuševi deli Boštjanov let in Poizvedovanje za imenom kot sklepanje kroga s krepkejšo črto
Authors: Borovnik Silvija
Published: September 2024

It is interesting to observe similarities between the latest prose text of Florjan Lipuš entitled Inquiry After a Name from 2013 and The Flight of Boštjan published ten years earlier, in 2003, as well as how the two works complement each other and how the latest one originates from all of the earlier ones, while at the same time transcending everything that was written before.
Izkoreninil se bom/Mich ausgraben – poezija Janija Oswalda v presečišču dveh svetov
Authors: Poniž Denis
Published: September 2024

In the article, on the basis of two collections of poetry by Jani Oswald, Babylon and Achillenverse, we seek to address the question of the young generation of Slovenian poets and their relationship to the bilingual reality that defines their creativity. In determining the features of his own poetics within the space of the sociopolitical reality, Oswald, with his poetics, steps outside the model of Slovenian national-defensive literature, replacing this model with a word play that deploys the strategies of concrete poetry, while also attempting to comprehend the bilingual or even trilingual reality of the region between the Alps and the Adriatic, particularly the “Carinthian” reality residing somewhere between regionalism and multiculturalism.
Josip Tavčar na stečišču kultur
Authors: Kravos Bogomila
Published: September 2024

In the 1950s, Josip Tavčar won wide acclaim from theatre goers attending the Slovenian National Theatre in Trieste for his first drama, which was a reflection of the sentiment of the citizens of Trieste at the time. Tavčar gained recognition over night, and in his subsequent plays extended the topics of external appearance and consumerism to the degradation of ethical rules and lust for power. Thematically, he was inspired by world events and spoke of the Slovenian bourgeoisie, who lived in accordance with the historical legacy of their environment. Within the context of theatre, part of literary criticism viewed Tavčar’s ability to establish his own subjectivity and his endeavours for the promotion of his own discourse as an extraordinary achievement. When, in Trieste in the 1970s, the presupposition of the suffering foreigner whose life goal is to preserve Slovenian identity became predominant, the original Trieste discourse lost significance. Tavčar persisted and continued to analyse the contemporary reality of Trieste outside the established models. Forty plays, a number of essays and many critical reviews, lecture cycles and translations bear witness to this.
Nekaj opazk o najsodobnejši beneški poeziji
Authors: Bandelj David
Published: September 2024

Ageneration of poets operating in the regions of Benečija (Veneto), Rezija (Resia) and the Valleys of Kanal (Canale) and Ter (Torre) has produced aunique phenomenon in the Slovenian literature of the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. By examining the trends that distinguish these authors, Iwill attempt to exemplify their poetological decision to continue the tradition of vernacular poetry, which they upgrade with content selection that is fresh and modern, sometimes daring, in order to bring the level of vernacular poetry, traditionally perceived as folk poetry, to that of literary art.
Tema nasilja totalitarnih režimov v literarnih besedilih nekaterih slovenskih pisateljic in publicistk
Authors: Glaz Agata
Published: September 2024

The discussion engages with the experience of violence in totalitarian systems as presented in the works of Slovenian woman literary authors and publicists. It focuses on the works of Angela Vode, Alma Karlin, Maja Haderlap and Angela Piskernik, all of whom were exposed to violence during internment in concentration camps. The texts reveal the experience of physical and psychological violence during World War II, as well as the role and position of women in the Nazi and Communist periods. A special place is assigned to the literary text Skriti spomin (Hidden Memory) by Angela Vode, who lived through the repression of both totalitarian regimes: Nazism and Communism. With the novel Engel des Vergessens (The Angel of Oblivion), Maja Haderlap draws attention to the interculturalism expressed in the traumatic history of the Carinthian Slovenes during World War II.
Pogledi na literarno zmožnost v didaktiki književnosti
Authors: Jožef Beg Jožica
Published: September 2024

The article deals with the specifics of the skills required to read literature as compared to general reading ability, providing a comparison of the role of literature in European school curricula, from which it is evident that teaching literature in Slovenian secondary schools is in line with European trends. By presenting some definitions and typologies of literary competence, the article draws attention to the different professional approaches in Slovenian and foreign literature, thus defining the position of literary competence development within the competence approach to teaching literature.
Nekaj nesistematičnih pogledov na sistem sodobne koroške slovenske literature
Authors: Leben Andrej
Published: September 2024

As a literary historian, an author of scientific discussions and essays, a lecturer at various symposiums and (people’s) universities, and an author of radio and theatre plays with Carinthian topics, Prof. Matjaž Kmecl has made an essential contribution to the visibility and knowledge of Carinthian Slovenian literature. Today, the literature created at the crossroads of the Slovenian and Austrian or German literary (poly)system displays an inner differentiation and can be treated as part of a special literary subsystem established by the network of specific inter-systemic intra- and interrelations.
Skica za Kmeclovo literarnovedno podobo
Authors: Kocijan Gregor
Published: September 2024

The paper points out the crucial features of the literary science of Matjaž Kmecl and seeks to outline his image as a literary scientist. This is done on the basis of an analysis of the content and methodology of his individual publications, starting with The Short Story in Literary Theory (1975) and ending with the monograph on Josip Jurčič (2009) and the survey A Thousand Years of Slovenian Literature (2004). Without Kmecl’s extraordinary contribution, the further development of Slovenian literary science would be inconceivable.
Matjaž Kmecl kot politik: Iz politike sem šel samo zato, da me ni ob vsesplošnem pričkanju kdaj zaneslo, da bi se še jaz začel hvaliti
Authors: Repe Božo
Published: September 2024

Matjaž Kmecl entered politics as a local authority committee member and was subsequently the Minister of Culture in the government of Dušan Šinigoj. However, his most important political role was that of a member of the reformed Leadership of the Central Committee of the Communist Union of Slovenia, and as member of the first directly elected Presidency of the Republic of Slovenia, both of which were presided over by Milan Kučan. At the forefront of his political agenda was culture.
Tematika materinjenja v izbranih dramskih delih Simone Semenič
Authors: Brataševec Laura
Published: September 2024

Playwright, dramaturge and producer Simona Semenič has enriched Slovenian drama with many drama pieces conveying a new, different view of existing topics. Of a particular interest is a depiction of motherhood that moves away from the dominant presentations of the mother, as well as descriptions of motherhood-related motifs. This distinguishes Semenič from other male and female playwrights. The critical and emotional approach pervading all of her texts has led her to produce numerous remarkable works that have seen several performances.
Gimnazijski pouk književnosti v luči prenove in posodobitve
Authors: Žbogar Alenka
Published: September 2024

In the article, the revised Grammar school curriculum for Slovene (2008) is compared with the revised syllabus for the Slovenian language and literature from 1996. It has been established that the continuity of the teaching of literature indicates the competence approach, while the novelty of the UN 2008 lies in its systemic approach. Both didactic approaches were defined by Boza Krakar Vogel.
Dejanski in želeni vpliv monografij Leopoldine Plut Pregelj na poslušanje v slovenski šoli
Authors: Bešter Turk Marja
Published: September 2024

The development of listening ability has been included in the Slovenian language curriculum in primary and secondary schools since 1998, due in part to the impact of the book Learning by Listening (1990) by Leopoldina Plut Pregelj, the first monograph on listening skills in Slovenia. The updated and expanded edition of this work was published in 2012 under the title Listening– A Way of Life and a Source of Knowing, and it is interesting to consider whether the new edition can also contribute to improving the quality of (Slovenian language) lessons.
Vloga pravorečja in njegovo poučevanje v slovenskem osnovno- in srednješolskem izobraževanju
Authors: Tivadar Hotimir
Published: September 2024

The teaching of speech and orthoepy is often neglected in Slovenia. Slovenian studies and disciplines mostly deal with written language and “written literacy”, thus at best treating reading as a mechanical conversion of the written text into speech, often only through silent reading. Even when it comes to the national assessment of knowledge and the Matura exam, the emphasis is on the written examination, while speech is only indirectly given regular attention in class work and during oral exams. In this article, we present the actual presence of speech in syllabuses and text books (shown in percentages), which can serve as a basis for future work and the development of educational courses in speech and orthoepy. We must be aware of the fact that the position of Slovenian language has changed in the last few years, and that the use of Slovenian language as a first language in public in Slovenia is less self-evident than it was when Slovenia gained independence. The teaching of speech in primary and secondary schools is therefore even more important, and the role of teachers, who, especially in primary schools, function as role models, is crucial.
Razvijanje kulturne kompetence ob kratki prozi Mire Mihelič
Authors: Bošnjak Blanka
Published: September 2024

The article first introduces a short overview of the reactions of literary history and literary criticism to the short stories of Mira Mihelič (1912–1985), which can be found in books, magazines and newspaper publications. The literary-historical perspective introduced can then, in the study process, be linked to the goals of systemic didactics and to selection and interpretation in the field of Slovenian literature, in particular contemporary literature, which includes the development of cultural awareness by gaining professional competence while studying.