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Špela Vintar, Korpusna analiza vloge označevalcev medleksemskih razmerij v organizaciji besedila
Authors: Gorjanc Vojko
Published: September 2024

The article discusses markers of semantic relations in a metadiscourse function. The markers of semantic relations in a metadiscourse function are the permanent inventory of the text, which helps link elements of a conceptual system, while also enabling comments on the links between the elements of the conceptual system. In the first part of the article, markers of semantic relations established for Slovene are presented, also showing how successful they are at capturing the actual conceptually related lexical units from a corpus. Later in the article a corpus analysis is employed to show that markers of interlexical relations are typically used as metadiscourse organisers in texts for specific purposes. The article concludes with a detailed analysis of the textual function of selected markers and their typical appearance in a text.
Nastajanje metabesedilnih prvin kot vidik procesa pisanja
Authors: Sešek Urša
Published: September 2024

Metatext – elements which help the writer guide the reader through the text and establish dialogue – and writing as a mental process represent two aspects of written communication which have received considerable attention internationally, but so far not from the point of view of their interrelatedness. The article presents an exploratory study involving an analysis of two writers’ text-producing processes and an analysis of their textual products from the viewpoint of using metatextual elements. Due to the limited scope of the study, the results cannot be generalized, but they do point towards the claim that different approaches to the process of writing are reflected in the usage of metatext, particularly those elements which establish dialogue with the reader.
Vpliv metadiskurznih elementov na razumevanje besedil
Authors: Jarnovič Urška
Published: September 2024

The article presents the results of a pilot study looking at the influence of metadiscourse elements on the understanding of selected authentic texts of two blogs. A separate study of textual and interpersonal metadiscourse elements employing different methodological approaches was made, since their textual functions differ. The aim of the study was to establish whether, and to what extent, textual and interpersonal metadiscourse elements in the case of experienced readers influence the mental representation of the content on the basis of the read text. The study shows that textual metadiscourse elements generally do not have an influence on experienced readers and their understanding of a selected authentic text. The study of interpersonal metadiscourse elements indicates that their influence on understanding depends on their function and the content of the text in which they appear: they can either influence the mental representation created after reading a text, they can remain part of the content in modified form, or they have no influence on understanding the chosen authentic texts.
Upravljanje pogovora kot metadiskurzna funkcija
Authors: Verdonik Darinka
Published: September 2024

The concept of metadiscourse is used in applied linguistics to characterise the parts of text that do not contribute new information, but help organize the text or build the relationship between the writer and the reader. In this paper I present a new aspect of metadiscourse that manifests itself especially in conversation: I refer to it as conversation management. I define three levels of conversation management: managing topic flow, managing turn-taking and managing utterance production. Based on an analysis of authentic conversations, I try to define the types of discourse elements through which the conversation management is realized. The results show that these elements are very diverse, and many of them (e. g.,prosody, speech acts, propositional content ...) have several other function in addition to conversation management.
Uvod v teorijo mladinske književnosti
Authors: Mileva Blažić Milena
Published: September 2024

Youth literature can be researched by either applying a traditional or a modern approach. The first approach studies youth literature merely within the context of education and didactics. The second approach is more recent, studying youth literature as an independent art form. What is particularly important is the process of institutionalising youth literature as an area of teaching at universities in Slovenia, especially after the year 1990. Here a contributing factor was also internationalisation, which has been the driving force of the development of literature and theory. Since its beginnings in the mid 19th century, youth literature has frequently stood at a crossroads in various national formations (the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, independent Slovenia, and, since 2004, Slovenia as a member of the European Union).
Razumeti razumevanje
Authors: Ferbežar Ina , Stabej Marko
Published: September 2024

Although rather elusive due to its complexity, comprehension is a phenomenon that lies at the very core of humanities. Traditional linguistics does not deal with it in detail, following the assumption that the knowledge of language in itself is sufficient for comprehension. In the paper comprehension is defined as a creation of meaning that depends on factors related to the comprehender, as well as on social and textual factors. Comprehension is schematized as the gradational overlapping of meaning created by the speaker and the comprehender. Furthermore, theoretical and methodological issues related to the empirical quantification of comprehension are emphasized.
Diskurzivna narava stereotipov in predsodkov ter soočanje z njimi v sodobni demokratični družbi
Authors: Mikolič Vesna
Published: September 2024

Following from the idea of tolerance and dialogue as fundamental concepts of contemporary democratic society, the paper defines the role of stereotypes and prejudices in these democratic ideals. On the one hand, the discursive nature of prejudices enables them to become obstinate ideological constructs, while, on the other hand, it also indicates their mutability. In any case, we witness contemporary changes in prejudices, which are becoming ever more covert, and observe their tendency to appear in certain new areas. With such fundamental changes in the development of prejudicial thinking it is even more important to develop ways to efficiently confront these changes. In the last part of the paper the results of research amongst the secondary school population in the city of Koper are presented. These results confirm the efficiency of so-called contact strategies in increasing awareness of stereotypes and prejudices.
Problem jezika v znanosti in visokošolskem izobraževanju ali problem znanosti in visokošolskega izobraževanja v Sloveniji?
Authors: Sajovic Tomaž
Published: September 2024

In science and in higher education in Slovenia, the English language, to a greater or lesser degree, is increasingly forcing out the Slovene language, despite the fact that the choice of language often determines the result in advance (I. Wallerstein). This is caused by measures of scientific excellence that give priority to publication in foreign scientific journals, above all in the English language, which is in no way neutral in terms of content and reduces the critical interest of Slovene scientists in problems related to the domestic environment, as well as reducing their interest in familiarizing the public with the results of their research. The only solution lies in changing the measures that stimulate social criticism, which is impossible to achieve without Slovene language texts. Here we encounter problematic, highly nominalized, impersonal and uncommunicative scientific language, including Slovene language, which is inseparably connected with the foundation of contemporary science: the Cartesian separation of the subject from the object (of research). The revolutionary discovery of the quantum world has reoriented research in completely the opposite direction: from the objects to the processes, from the determined to the probable, from the immutable to the mutable. It has also destroyed the Cartesian division – research of the quantum world is fundamentally dependent on the observer and his or her observation, and amongst quantum physicists has stimulated an interest in imprecise natural language. For quantum physicists natural language is the closest to the dynamic reality. On the basis of such radical changes in the scientific paradigm, in linguistics there has also arisen an awareness of the fact that if we want to consciously enter into dialogue with reality it is necessary to radically open up and humanize scientific language, including Slovene scientific language.
Iskanje odgovorov na Vprašanja govorjenega jezika
Authors: Zemljarič Miklavčič Jana
Published: September 2024

In the paper certain characteristics of spontaneous speech are presented. Particular attention is devoted to those characteristics that according to the traditional notion are considered to be departures from the codification of standard language. I establish that these characteristics also have their own internal logic and that we can seek common laws in them. I also try to determine whether spoken language has its own grammar, and in connection with this how many forms of spoken language there are and what the basis of spontaneous speech is. Amongst semantic and syntactic units I focus on textual actualizers, discourse markers, repetitions, false beginnings, paraphrases, concealed speech and pauses in speaking. I observe these features in material from The Pilot Corpus of Spoken Slovene and attempt to interpret the findings. It will be possible to verify the hypotheses on a reference corpus of spoken Slovene.
Štiri ženske avtobiografije
Authors: Novak Popov Irena
Published: September 2024

The discussion treats four novelized autobiographies: Podobe iz mojega življenja (Images from My Life) by Ilka VašteUre mojih dni (The Hours of My Days) by Mira Mihelič and Zaznamovana (Marked) and Saga o kovčku (The Suitcase Saga) by Nedeljka Pirjevec. In terms of their dates of birth and the publication dates of their last works, these authors are separated from one another by a period of two decades, and from a comparison of their life stories, their writers’/artists’ stories and the construction of their autobiographical I one can observe the development of self-awareness, acceptance and the decomposition of the roles and positions of women in society. From a powerful, competitive rebel seeking to occupy the public space the subject softens to an adaptable width=100%, responsive being, and finally takes the position of apparent subjugation, which as the power to allow the other to be is beyond the competitive relationship. With this the essentialism (fatalism) of gender differences is surpassed and a shift to historically mutable width=100% social constructs of gender is achieved. At the same time, narrative strategies develop: the simple dialogue between the narrator and the autobiographical subject expands to a multi-voice structure, autobiography fictionalizes itself, and the traditional realistic approach of narrative gives way to scrupulously elaborated and disseminated modern writing.
Avtobiografija in naratologija: sodobne pripovednoteoretske kategorije v raziskavah avtobiografskih pripovedi
Authors: Koron Alenka
Published: September 2024

Following from the possibilities of the productive interaction of post-classical narratology, i.e. the most recent narrative theory approaches, the theory of autobiography and contemporary theories of fiction, I attempt in the article to shed light on the philosophical and theoretical-methodological assumptions of certain contemporary narratological categories and models, while demonstrating their applicability to the research of autobiographical narrative with the aid of some examples from Slovene literature.
FrameNet in slovenščina
Authors: Krek Simon
Published: September 2024

FrameNet is a computational lexicographic project that enables the user to manually and automatically extract from large text corpuses information about the interdependent semantic and syntactic features of English words. The article summarizes the key characteristics of the project and shows, through concrete examples, the transposition of FrameNet’s concepts to the Slovene linguistic situation.
Lepe slikanice: literatura v slovenskem filmu med leti 1948 in 1991
Authors: Zorman Barbara
Published: September 2024

The article presents the factors that have conditioned the relationship between film and literature in a broad sense, while in a narrower sense conditioning the selection of literature on which film is based and its filmic interpretation in Slovenia between 1948 and 1991. The prevailing thematic categories of literature interpreted in film during this period are also highlighted.
Družbeni akterji in slovenska kulturna identiteta v medijskem diskurzu dveh obdobij
Authors: Bergoč Simona
Published: September 2024

The article presents research on the social actors who were linked with notions of national culture, and either directly or indirectly also with national language, in the context of two major political upheavals of Slovene nation forming: the period before the plebiscite for secession from the multilingual and multinational Yugoslavia (1990) and the period before the referendum for inclusion in the multilingual and multinational European Union (2003). The social actors are analysed quantitatively, in the sense of the number of their appearances - i.e., their lesser or greater presence in the field of public communication - as well as qualitatively, in the sense of their way of representation and the discursive effects that their specific ways of articulation evoke. The research demonstrates the participatory circumstances of declaring and taking issue with cultural-identity questions and the operation of the ideology of linguistic exclusivity in the context of wide-ranging political decisions.
Veliki čudež malega jezika
Authors: Prunč Erich
Published: September 2024

With Slovenia’s entry to the EU in May 2004 Slovene became one of the EU’s 21 official languages, a figure that has now grown to 23. Thus for the first time in history the entire autochthonous language area found itself in the same legal framework. Only the Slovenian minority in Istria and social and political emigrants outside Europe remained outside this framework. Within the linguistic-political framework of the EU Slovene has experienced its most extensive functional expansion. With this background I seek to outline the centrifugal and centripetal forces in the formation of a common (literary) language and culture. In so doing I will not quote new factographic data, nor will I repeat generally known findings, instead I will attempt to change the perspective on selected linguistic and culturological facts. Rather than a mental concept focused on finding original purity, monolinguism and unidirectionality in development, I bring to the fore the dynamic relationships of intercultural diversity, regional transience and the mutual interweaving of diverse elements. Unfortunately, within this framework I will not be able to pursue all of the complexities of development, and in the interest of the greater clarity I will not be able to avoid certain simplifications.
Leksikografovi zapiski o korpusnem slovarju
Authors: Čermák František
Published: September 2024

In the following notes there will be an attempt made to emphasize some of the difficult problems and issues encountered during the compilation process of a monolingual dictionary. Since it is neither possible to be exhaustive nor detailed enough, the notes, preceded by some preliminary remarks (1), are split into two main sections (I and II). In Part I (2-4), an analysis of corpus data (drawing on the Czech language), exemplified and commented, is offered resulting at a lexical profile of a word, while in Part II (5-8) drawing on the previous part, a commented list of some of the main aspects and principles of the dictionary-making business will be presented. References to most of the points raised are to be found in the literature at the end.
Mladinska književnost med krščanstvom in socializmom: dve zgodbi ene Bratovščine Sinjega galeba
Authors: Svetina Peter
Published: September 2024

The Brotherhood of the Blue Seagull by Tone Seliškar is one of the central works of contemporary youth narrative prose. The work was first published in book form in 1936, when the Slovene middle class had a central social role, while the revised edition was published in 1948, in the time of the newly emerged socialist regime. The new social circumstances also had an influence on the different conceptual point of departure in the novel. A comparison of and commentary on the changes of the pre-war and post-war editions of the story is the topic of the present article.
Eksplicitacija v prevodih političnih govorov – korpusna analiza
Authors: Šumrada Simona
Published: September 2024

In 2008, Slovenia and France presided over the European Union. Both countries published translations of speeches and other public communication on the Internet. In view of the relative comparability of the situation in which the translations came about, it would be interesting to undertake a complete analysis of the documents translated within the framework of the two state institutions. The present article is limited to an analysis of phenomena linked with explicitation, as they appear in translations into French and English with regard to the Slovene original. It is based on a parallel and comparative section of a corpus of political speech texts. The results of quantitative and, to a lesser extent, qualitative analysis are presented, based primarily on the explicitation of demonstrative pronouns in noun usage. In translations of Slovene political speeches these are often replaced by noun anaphora, which is a stronger cohesive link.
Pravopisna obravnava imen znamk in industrijskih izdelkov ter posledice spreminjanja njihovih lastnoimenskih funkcij
Authors: Dobrovoljc Helena
Published: September 2024

The article presents a linguistic treatment of brand names and the names of industrial products as groups of concrete proper names. Through changes at various levels of linguistic analysis, the process of the modification of the proper name function of brand names to various degrees is demonstrated, including its transition to a common name. Alongside the emergence of generic names from brand names there is a presentation of the treatment of these names in dictionaries from the second half of the 20th century, with an emphasis on providing an outline of the deficiencies of the actual codification. For the example of Teflon, an outline is provided of the difficulties arising from the contradiction between legislation and marketing principles, as well as linguistic principles.
Gert Hofmann in Slovenci: podoba Slovenije v romanu Lektor v Ljubljani
Authors: Tratnik Veronika
Published: September 2024

The purpose of the present article is firstly to present in broad strokes the German author Gert Hofmann, who in the 1970s and 1980s attracted a great deal of attention amongst the European public with his creative opus. The novel Die Fistelstimme (1980, translated into Slovene as Lektor v Ljubljani, 1982) also enthused Slovene cultural circles. In the continuation, the article will present a more detailed treatment of the imageological analysis of the Slovene national images and stereotypes sketched in Hofmann’s above mentioned text, in so doing referring to the theory of the French imageologist Daniel-Henri Pageaux and the Slovene psychologist Janek Musek. It will also briefly present the most important literary critical views of the writer’s experience of the Slovene environment.
Funkcionalna pismenost bodočih vzgojiteljev ter učiteljev razrednega pouka
Authors: Skubic Darija
Published: September 2024

The article focuses on the functional literacy of future kindergarten and primary school teachers. In the first part, I define the concept of functional literacy, which has changed and continues to change with regard to the needs and demands of contemporary society. I then address the importance of communication activities for the successful development of literacy, types of functional literacy and the methods of assessment, or measurement, of functional literacy. The second part of the article presents the results of research in which I compared the functional literacy of groups of future kindergarten and primary school teachers
Koncept narave v Jamnici: ekokritični diskurzivni pristop
Authors: Vičar Branislava
Published: September 2024

The article is focused on two questions: (1) How does Prežihov Voranc, with models of grammatical choice, present nature and its power? (2) How does he form man’s relationship towards nature? The relative power of natural elements is demonstrated with the aid of an analysis of transitive structures. On the next level the analysis embraces the aspect of ethical criticism of anthropocentrism in ecology. Ecological critical discursive analysis has demonstrated that the subjectivation of nature in its relationship with man is not possible. Nature’s role fluctuates between a passive participant and an active agent, i.e., between exploitable, available, relatively passive and unmanageable, harmful to man. The position between exploitation and harmfulness is supported by the basic concept of the relationship towards nature in the novel, i.e., it reflects man’s interest in controlling nature. The writer’s principal interest does not lie and seeking the inherent value of non-human nature, but rather in seeking the inherent value in the powerful domination of a utilitarian relationship towards nature.
Branje Jamnice v času socialnih sprememb
Authors: Perenič Urška , Hladnik Miran
Published: September 2024

Prežih’s “neighbourhood novel” Jamnica (1945), which was written under the influence of foreign and Slovene literary classics as well as of the genre model of the rural novel, met with success on its publication. In this collective novel the village community retains above all the various folklore forms of sociability, but rather than simply being narrative ornamentation the descriptions of these forms are woven into the social message of the novel. Another characteristic is the attachment of the members of the community to the land, a kind of natural vitalism. In a time of economic crisis and on the brink of the Second World War, the survival strategy of the community leads to a “social experiment”, i.e., entering into a social pact between the landowners and the crofters.
Pojavne oblike memorije in spomina v literarnih delih Prežihovega Voranca
Authors: Köstler Erwin
Published: September 2024

Prežihov Voranc is an author who in his narratives, reportage and travelogues to a large extent and on various (inter)textual levels addresses the topic of memory and recollection. On the basis of Jan Assmann’s concept of collective memory and current studies on the applicability of the concept to literary-historical methodology, with reference to selective examples the discussion treats various functions of these themes, particularly the use of mnemotope and the body as the “place” of collective identity. There is an emphasis on the aspect of communicative memory and the connection of the author to regional cultural recollection, which comes clearly to expression in the chronotope of the journey and in the material that the author (apparently) takes from the people’s oral narrative.
Fenomen mesta v opusu Ivana Cankarja in Zofke Kveder
Authors: Jensterle - Doležal Alenka
Published: September 2024

The article deals with the semantics of the city in Slovene modernism, in particular with Ivan Cankar’s association with Vienna and Zofka Kveder’s link with Prague. The two Slovene authors are amongst the multilingual authors who represented a unique phenomenon in the multicultural Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. They both undertook their creative work in the atmosphere of various cultures and languages in a foreign city with different cultural codes. The two authors were also linked creatively: Cankar had a great deal of influence on the creativity of Zofka Kveder, who was in turn Cankar’s first translator for German readers, thus also presenting his work to the Czech cultural sphere. At this time, Ivan Cankar was regarded as the most characteristic author of modernism, while Zofka Kveder, a mediator of Slovene culture and literature, succeeded in the Czech cultural sphere, partly thanks to Zdenka Hásková. The treatment of the theme of the space of the large city-metropolis and city motives in their work represents a special issue. The opus of Ivan Cankar is marked by various Viennese motives (the novel The Ward of Mary Help of Christians ), social, aesthetic and other city images from Erotica and Vignettes onwards. Vienna, above all the experience of the suburb (Ottakring) and the city centre, has a very specific function in the narrative structure of Cankar’s sketches. In contrast, Kveder wrote very little about Prague: the image of romantic Prague dominates, marked by historical and cultural emblems (the tale Slikar Novak, the novel Hanka).
Osvobodilni tisk za mladino
Authors: Jožef Beg Jožica
Published: September 2024

The national liberation press for youth, which was established on Slovene territory during the time of the national liberation struggle (1941–1945), had an important influence on the development of culture and national consciousness, as well as on the literary creativity of the youth who were included in the partisan movement at that time. The article, which was written on the basis of research of material in the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, presents the significance, characteristics, editorial policy and circumstances of the emergence of the most important central youth publications with regional reprints, regional district publications and military youth publications, limiting its focus to the part of youth periodicals that, in addition to political-informative texts, also published literary texts.
Jordi Magrinyà Domingo, Marko Stabej, Slovenščina v evropskem babilonu: Izkušnje slovenskih poslancev v Evropskem parlamentu 2004–2009
Authors: Stritar Mojca , Magrinyà Domingo Jordi , Stabej Marko
Published: September 2024

The article presents a description of the language situation of Slovene representatives in the European parliament 2004–2009. The results, which are based on interviews undertaken with representatives in 2007, show that although Slovene is one of the 23 official languages of the parliament, interpretation and translation are always provided primarily in symbolically important situations, while they are less frequent at working meetings. For representatives, therefore, a knowledge of foreign languages is essential, especiallyEnglish, German and French. Despite this, all of the Slovene Euro-representatives support the existing multilingual arrangement.
Izpustnost in elipsa
Authors: Unuk Drago
Published: September 2024

The article presents the theoretical relationship between the understanding of omission and ellipsis. Of all of the types of elliptical constructions, the most frequently analysed are gapping and verbal ellipsis. It would seem that ellipsis and other procedures involving omission require a certain similarity or parallelism obtaining between the reduced member and an antecedent in the discourse, which also grants the integration of the ellipsis into the structure of the discourse. Defining topicality with a referent and selecting the form of the referent is, on the one hand, determined as an information structure and, on the other, as a discourse structure; both are manifest as information organising principles – as a visible and structured expression of order. Thus there is a need to examine the phenomenon of omission, and within this the place of ellipsis.
»Izrekam zvestobo moji novi domovini Republiki Sloveniji …«: testiranje znanja slovenščine kot drugega in tujega jezika v Sloveniji
Authors: Ferbežar Ina
Published: September 2024

The article presents the status of speakers of Slovene as a second and foreign language, especially those who are required to demonstrate their competence in Slovene with an official certificate in order to be able to live and work in the Republic of Slovenia. According to data for recent years, the number of immigrants in Slovenia is increasing, as are the formal language requirements. Competence in Slovene language has been a condition for acquiring Slovene citizenship by naturalisation since 1992, while it is only in the past few years that other countries of the European Union have started to introduce language exams for so-called integration purposes. Language testing for citizenship purposes affects some fundamental human rights, and thus raises numerous ethical issues as well as issues of access to language skills, teaching practices and the actual communication needs of the test takers. On the other hand, a problem has been identified in those areas where the language requirements should be more clearly defined; for example, regarding foreign medical doctors seeking employment in Slovenia. In the second part, the article focuses on the current system of testing Slovene as a second and foreign language, providing some statistics on the number of test takers, their origins, learning practices and reasons for sitting Slovene language exams. Most importantly, the article raises some important questions regarding language exams for specific groups of speakers whose mother tongues are closely related to Slovene.
Jezikovne spretnosti madžarske manjšine v Sloveniji
Authors: Kolláth Anna
Published: September 2024

Since March 2011, the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor has participated as a partner in the international project ELDIA (European Language Diversity for All), undertaking studies of the Hungarian language and its speakers in Slovenia. The Maribor project group has investigated the linguistic situation of the Hungarian-speaking minority in Slovenia from the various perspectives determined within the project. The present article consists of two parts. In the first, shorter part, the ELDIA interdisciplinary project is presented, along with its goals, the languages investigated and the new approaches . The second part contains an analysis of the initial data obtained from a large corpus that was assembled by collecting data through surveying and interviewing members of the Hungarian-speaking minority in Slovenia and members of the majority population of Slovenia. After presenting the basic demographic data on the respondents, there is an analysis of the four basic language skills of the respondents in both groups. The level of language skills for each language (native tongue, second language, foreign languages , the mother tongue of indigenous minorities in Slovenia) was marked by the respondents themselves on the basis of self-assessment on a five-point scale. The analysis of the results according to language and individual language community pinpoints tendencies that, in times of economic and social globalisation, determine the use of languages in a variety of language venues in the multilingual and multicultural world.
Krajnski komedijanti kot del kanonizacijskega procesa preroditeljev v slovenski kulturi
Authors: Koron Alenka
Published: September 2024

The article sheds light on some of the significant circumstances of the genesis and performance of Kreft’s play The Comedians of Carniola as gestures of canonisation with which the author attempted to re-evaluate Linhart’s role in Slovenian literary history. Nearly forty years later, a play by Mirko Zupančič entitled That’s the Stuff of which the Comedians of Carniola are Made is intertextually connected to Linhart’s play The Happy Day or Mathias Gets Married and Kreft’s The Comedians of Carniola, but displays different intentions of the author and the decomposition of the play within the play.
Otrokovo poznavanje koncepta tiska (knjige) kot pomemben del zgodnje pismenosti
Authors: Skubic Darija
Published: September 2024

The article deals with the topic of early literacy in Slovenia, focusing on the child’s familiarity with the concept of print and the book. The first section sets out to define the notions of literacy, nascent literacy and early literacy. In the continuation, the article presents one of the instruments for assessing or verifying the child’s familiarity with the concept of print and the book. It then goes on to present the results of research into the awareness of the concept of print and the book as an important aspect of early literacy in 535 children aged 5–6 years who attend 25 randomly selected Slovenian kindergartens. The results show that more than half of the children are able to grasp the structure of a book, and that more than half of them are capable of distinguishing between pictures and text, of recognising the direction of the print, and of determining the beginning and the end of a book, as well as being able to use literary terminology. As these results are unsatisfactory, we suggest adopting the method of so-called emphasised awareness-raising in the field of printed books, whereby the educator encourages the child’s familiarity with print.
Vprašanje regionalizma in univerzalizma v Rebulovi prozi
Authors: Pirjevec Marija
Published: September 2024

A constant topic in the narrative prose of Alojz Rebula is the encounter of the regional and the universal, which is both a fundamental problem of our time and a key question of contemporary Slovenian culture. The problem has drawn the attention of both national and international critics alike, amongst whom one could mention Claudio Magris, who, in his book Trieste, un'identitá di frontiera (Trieste, the Border Identity), writes that Rebula “with his historical-symbolic-religious novel Nel vento della sibilla (In Sybil’s Wind) (1968) conveys a parable of the conflict between the universal and the particular, between unity and heterogeneity, which is a severe conflict of our time.” In his opus, Rebula raises the question of the close interconnectedness between the regional and the universal, both of which can be protracted to their extremes. This is a case of contamination of two fundamental opposites. It was in fact regional determinism, which is found in Rebula’s early works in all of its intensity, that shifted the impetus in the opposite direction, towards universalism. It is, however, by no means a type of loose universalism, but rather one still firmly attached to tradition and profoundly determined by it.
Sodobna slovenska novela preštevno
Authors: Žbogar Alenka
Published: September 2024

A presentation of theoretical aspects of the short story is followed by a quantitative analysis of Slovenian short stories published between 1980 and 2013. In this period, 49 collections were published with the label short story and/or novelette in the title or subtitle. We have established the proportion of collections published by individual publishers, as well as examining the dynamics of publication, authors’ prose type labels in titles and subtitles of prose collections, and size-of-the-text parameters (number of words) in the individual stories included in the selected compilations. Six compilations from the 1980s, seven from the 1990s and eleven published after 2000, representing half of the total production, were examined for the number of stories per compilation and the number of words per story. The statistical results have a descriptive rather than normative value, considering that the size limits of short prose are, in fact, a matter of agreement.
Verz in proza, vmes pa nič
Authors: Bjelčevič Aleksander
Published: September 2024

Verse is not synonymous with poetry, a poem or lyrics, nor is prose synonymous with narrative, a story or prosaicness. Verse and prose are clearly defined notions, while all of the others are vague. Verse and prose are opposite and mutually exclusive, therefore no in-between forms exist. However, in-between forms do exist between poetry and narrative. Thus free verse is verse and not an in-between form between verse and prose, whereas a prose poem and rhythmic prose are prose. Verse is not obligatory for a poem and poetry, poetry can also be written in prose (the prose poem). Verse is not merely limited to poetry, it can also be encountered in narrative (e.g., a novel or a short short story in verse). Rhythm is optional for verse, some poems in free verse are rhythmless. Poetics (metaphors, symbols and similar) is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for verse. Verse, rhythm and poetics are only inherent in typical poems, not in all poems.
Spremenljive meje literature: fikcija, »fakcija« in tretja razsežnost
Authors: Tokarz Bożena
Published: September 2024

The third dimension of literature, defined as fiction, derives from the nature of the existence of literature. Despite attempts to distance itself from narrative, it ensures the existence of clear dividing lines between literature itself and that which is external to it, even when these borders are intentionally blurred in the text. This is a space of opportunity and potential, of that which is temporally unlimited and as such immortal.
Eleganca resnosti branja mladinske književnosti
Authors: Saksida Igor
Published: September 2024

The contribution is focused on the method of interpretation of youth literature as demonstrated by the expert texts of Helga Glušič. The point of departure is the fundamental autopoetics emphasising the quality and the reader universality of this literary genre. Both starting points for interpretation and assessment can be identified in the author’s interpretations of youth literature, particularly in A Hundred Slovenian Narrative Writers, in which two models of reading youth literature are intertwined: the interpretation of young readers’ texts as an important part of an author’s opus, and the focus on these texts in the case that an author has been marked in literary history as a youth writer.
Lepovidovstvo v romanih Gabriele Babnik Koža iz bombaža in Sušna doba
Authors: Potisk Martina
Published: September 2024

The article examines the presence of motifs from “Lovely Vida” and the transformations of its subject matter and meaning in the novels Cotton Skin (2007) and The Dry Season (2012) by Gabriela Babnik. An overview of the findings of Ivan Grafenauer, Jože Pogačnik and Irena Avsenik Nabergoj regarding variants of the “Lovely Vida” folk ballad and the artificial reworkings of its ideational-symbolic dimensions is followed by an interpretative analysis of the aforementioned novels. The analysis demonstrates the occurrence of noticeable motif and theme variations of the third variant type of national folk ballads about Lovely Vida, which are also embedded in the contemporary context: the desire of the female characters for a better life. The Other Place with dark-skinned individuals from African countries turns into a gradual familiarisation with the Other, with which the novels serve as an illustration of intercultural oppositions.
Preoblikovanje slovenske narodne identitete v diskurzu slovenskih medijskih besedil v prvih letih po drugi svetovni vojni
Authors: Kernc Boštjan
Published: September 2024

The present article discusses the depiction and perception of the idea of the Slovenian nation, its character and its role in society in the first five years following World War II, as projected in the daily newspapers of the time, thus shedding light on Slovenian national identity traits. At the same time, parallels are drawn with the content of pre-war newspapers. The article focuses on a corpus-based approach and the analysis of discursive elements that play a significant role in national identity formation. We establish that national identity is a discursive construct that is greatly influenced by historical and political circumstances. The discursive practice most commonly found in the period in question reflects a breaking away from the past and a transformation of the Slovenian national character from being passive and subservient to being active and independent. This was mainly initiated by events in the time of the National Liberation Movement (NOB), and by the intersection of national identity and class identity. The transition can be observed primarily on the basis of three metaphorical concepts of a nation as a homogeneous whole: a nation as an organism that eliminates morbid, disease-causing parts; a nation as a human being with an ability to change his/her character traits and mature; and a nation and homeland respectively as a building under reconstruction.
Kurikularni bralci, tabuji in cenzorske strategije (primer Cankarjevo tekmovanje)
Authors: Saksida Igor
Published: September 2024

In the introduction, the article focuses on those rights of the reader (D. Pennac) that cannot be fulfilled in the reading event. It then delineates the main layers of provocative texts (theme, perspective, plot, literary character, the use of language, mood); these elements of the reader’s response related to ideological and social assumptions can label a specific text as a taboo text. In the main part, the article reveals censorial strategies: anonymous incitement on the Internet, evaluation of unread texts, unfair information in the media, and obstacles that emerge from authoritarian or idyllic concepts of children’s literature. In the concluding part, the article provides some recommendations for mentors in fighting censorship.
Frazeologija v šoli – drugič
Authors: Kržišnik Erika
Published: September 2024

The article presents and interprets the results of a survey carried out for a second time in 2014, some 27 years after its initial execution. The sample included 234 first-year secondary school students (four classes) and fourth-year secondary school students (five classes). Three of the secondary schools were grammar schools (two in Ljubljana and one in Celje) and one was a technical school in Ljubljana. Originating in the 1980s, the survey contains Slovenian phrasemes that secondary school students now consider slightly more traditional; we therefore added some phrasemes frequently used and current today. We monitored the knowledge of phrasemes in terms of form, meaning and use. The results show the relationships between schools and classes, primarily between the first and fourth grades. The interpretation of the results is partly determined by the survey itself and the selected phrasemes.
Narečje v projektnem učenju
Authors: Ljubešić Marko , Benjak Mirjana
Published: September 2024

In order to change the approach towards teaching the native language in the Croatian school system, which neglects the student’s (dialect) idiom, a methodical model based upon the project method system is proposed. Taking as a starting point the principles of homeland, appropriateness, actualisation and interest, on the one hand, and the correlative-integrative relations between the related subjects, on the other, the authors establish a new paradigm in the teaching of standard language.
Modeli jezikovnega pouka pri predmetu slovenščina od leta 1990 do danes
Authors: Vogel Jerca
Published: September 2024

The article discusses the development of teaching Slovenian language as a first/mother tongue since 1990. The focus is on three models: the rational-formalist model, the communicative model, and the cognitive-critical communicative model. The article explains the reasons for the formation of each of these models, as well as explicating their linguistic bases, general models of language teaching and their implementation in the curriculum for the Slovenian language in grammar school. Based on an analysis of the curriculum from 2008, reflection on three open questions is suggested in the conclusion: the role of meta-knowledge, the concept of the identity role of language, and the typical characteristics of critical communication.
Od recepcijske do sistemske didaktike književnosti
Authors: Mileva Blažić Milena
Published: September 2024

The paper researches the academic path of Boža Krakar Vogel from its initial phase, when she dealt with youth literature, to its central, didactic phase, when she defined, classified and established didactics at the university level. Boža Krakar Vogel engaged in this field at three levels: academic (research), professional (textbooks) and pedagogical (mentoring postgraduate students). Initially, she helped upgrade the field of teaching methods to the didactics of literature, while also changing the didactics paradigm from that of reader-response theory to literary system theory.
650 let Univerze na Dunaju – 40 let slovenistike na Univerzi na Dunaju – 15 let sodelovanja z Božo Krakar Vogel
Authors: Jenko Elizabeta
Published: September 2024

In this paper, we present the 40-year official history of Slovenian Studies at the University of Vienna, starting in 1975, although the use of Slovenian at this university dates back at least to 1849. Using historical data, we try to interpolate and illustrate the processes that have significantly influenced the development of Slovenian at this university, mostly based on the personal dedication of individual people, among them Boža Krakar Vogel.
Šolski esej in splošna matura iz slovenščine
Authors: Ambrož Darinka
Published: September 2024

The development of the school essay as part of the General Matura in Slovenian language is closely related to the development of the didactics of literature founded by Boža Krakar Vogel. In the last two decades, the instructions for writing the essay, the method of its grading, and the number of prescribed literary works have changed, while the prudent selection of the thematic headings has remained a constant. Further development of the school essay in the General Matura is an important and demanding task that requires co-ordinated professional efforts on the part of academics in the area of literature and the didactics of literature, as well as on the part of experts from the National Education Institute of the Republic of Slovenia and the examination committee for Slovenian language, which has benefitted from staff reinforcement, acting within the framework of the National Examinations Centre.
Zunanje ocenjevanje šolskega eseja na splošni maturi od začetka do danes
Authors: Šimenc Brane , Tomaževič Polonca
Published: September 2024

The present contribution deals with the external evaluation of Examination Paper No. 1, i.e., the school essay, from the practical and operational point of view. It first presents the current practices of evaluation and the achieved results, then addresses the evaluation of the tasks at the time of the introduction of the matura exam, and finally describes the development of the evaluation to the present day, as dictated by the experience gained, the changes in the syllabus, and the increased competence of the candidates in solving textually demanding tasks. The development of the first matura exam paper and its evaluation is divided into two periods, with the year 2002 as the dividing line.
Med komunikacijskim in problemsko-ustvarjalnim poukom književnosti
Authors: Medved Udovič Vida
Published: September 2024

The paper sheds light on the teaching of literature in primary schools and identifies the communication model of bringing literature closer to young readers from the first to the ninth grade as the central approach to implementing this objective. It proposes that, in the second and especially in the third education cycle, this should be upgraded with elements of systemic didactics and problem-solving and creative teaching. In discussing literary texts, it points to the significance of the interpretation of less-known vocabulary and analyses a survey questionnaire carried out with fourth-year students at the Koper Faculty of Education, on the basis of which students’ attitudes towards the topics discussed in the paper were acquired.