SLAVONICAPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2065776
M. Rozman
{"title":"A Poet King","authors":"M. Rozman","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2065776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2065776","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 The following abridged and adapted newspaper article deals with the Slovenian Romantic poet France Prešeren who was supported by his friend the linguist, historian and literary critic Matija Čop. Prešeren proved that Slovenia was a nation because of its literature. According to the theory of the brothers Schlegel a nation exists only if its language can create high-brow poetry.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"67 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47238131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2068116
Tetiana M. Brovarets
{"title":"Gender Inversion of the Smurfette Principle ‘Eight Girls and One Me – Wherever They Go, I Go!’: How Many Girls Are Enough to Overpower One Boy?","authors":"Tetiana M. Brovarets","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2068116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2068116","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A trope depicting a sole girl among many boys is widely known as the Smurfette principle. It is often used with the aim to emphasize the high-priority of male personages and the low-priority of the female ones. The only girl is stereotypical here, whereas all the boys are shown as individuals. Even more, this woman among the men is perceived as an appendage. But what will happen if we turn over this trope? Suppose if it is only one boy surrounded by many girls, what would that look like? Who would be a leader in such a company? Would it still be a boy (because men are stronger, anyway)? Or, after all, would it be girls (as women are in the majority here)? If the last variant, how many girls are enough to overpower one boy? Actually, there are some genres (such as Ukrainian epigraphic embroidery) where gender inversion of the Smurfette principle called after the folklore phrase ‘Eight Girls and One Me – Wherever They Go, I Go!’ is more popular than the Smurfette principle itself. For more than one century, it has been moved from folk to popular and professional cultures and returned to its roots, naturally being transformed in line with changing realities.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"26 - 52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41472687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2065775
Ana Prokopyshyn, Nailia Baldé, J. Dutta, Gueorgui Hristovsky
{"title":"DIALOG Project: Materials for Teaching Russian to Portuguese Speaking Students in an Academic Context","authors":"Ana Prokopyshyn, Nailia Baldé, J. Dutta, Gueorgui Hristovsky","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2065775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2065775","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 In this paper information is presented about a recent didactic project launched by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Lisbon, developed as a resource for teaching Russian. The authors are the lecturers of Russian Language and Culture at the Centre for Slavic Studies – a unit of the above-mentioned Faculty.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"59 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43912307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2022.2065777
J. Dutta
{"title":"Some Aspects of Teaching the Russian Language in Portugal","authors":"J. Dutta","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2022.2065777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2022.2065777","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This short article discusses some problems relating to the systemic-communicative method and culture- through-language studies (лингвострановедческих аспектов) aspects of teaching the Russian language outside the language environment, more specifically, in Portugal, and in accordance with this, the question of the perfect knowledge of the language of students and its use by the teacher in the classroom is discussed.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"27 1","pages":"70 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42931583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2021.1996163
Elena Bollinger
{"title":"Dead Souls Symbology as Discursive Construction of Memory in Gogol and Barnes","authors":"Elena Bollinger","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2021.1996163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2021.1996163","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Resting upon carefully depicted juxtaposition of unrelated phenomena, such as death and a living soul, Gogol’s Dead Souls incorporates a disturbing narrative ambivalence into stylistic representation of humanity. Such a disquieting plot line has been thoroughly revisited in Barnes’s The Noise of Time, in which the symbology of a dead soul is directly connected with one who lives and remembers. The article explores several intertextual connections between Gogol’s dead souls and Barnes’s death of the soul, in order to demonstrate how death symbology may contribute to the discursive construction of memory in Russian and English literatures and cultures.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"26 1","pages":"155 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41481560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2021.1996161
Gueorgui Hristovsky
{"title":"Vowel-Zero Alternation in Root-Final Obstruent–Sonorant Clusters in Modern Bulgarian: Is [ə] an Epenthetic Vowel or a Vocalised Yer?","authors":"Gueorgui Hristovsky","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2021.1996161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2021.1996161","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article proposes two tests that allow us to determine, first, whether the root-final [ə] in obstruent–sonorant clusters is alternating or not and, second, if alternating, whether the surfacing [ə] is an epenthetic vowel or a vocalised yer. The correct underlying representations are necessary for any subsequent analysis of related forms with strings of alternating vowels and for the better understanding of the contexts and conditionings of these alternations. At the same time, different root types are identified, and rule analysis of yer vocalisation is proposed: yers vocalise to the left or to the right of unsyllabified consonants. This approach also allows us to decide which will be the default case in the underlying representations of items which cannot be submitted to the second test.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"26 1","pages":"164 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46575583","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2021.1998756
Dmitry V. Shlapentokh
{"title":"Turkmenistan’s Dilemma","authors":"Dmitry V. Shlapentokh","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2021.1998756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2021.1998756","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Gas exports have emerged as the major source for hard currency. The income from gas exports made it possible to maintain the Russian state and economy. It is crucial for the stability of the regime. While trying to diversify the markets, the Kremlin has few choices. It could send gas either to China or Europe. Despite the existence of the Chinese market, the European market has continued to be extremely important. The Kremlin tried to minimise the completion and this explains its policy toward Turkmenistan with its rich gas deposits. Consequently, Moscow’s policy in the Middle East is often conditioned by the attempt to prevent Turkmenistan from sending gas to European markets or creating any other problems for Gazprom.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"26 1","pages":"128 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42867835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2021.1983095
Yerkebulan Sairambay
{"title":"Political Culture and Participation in Russia and Kazakhstan: A New Civic Culture with Contestation?","authors":"Yerkebulan Sairambay","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2021.1983095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2021.1983095","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article offers a critical examination of various scholarly works that attempt to study political cultures of Russia and Kazakhstan in order to explain the ways in which participatory trends are taking place. The existing literature on political cultures of these two countries is impressionistic and somehow contradictory. Reviewing recent insights into the new types of political participation both offline and online, I argue that Almond and Verba’s (1963) ‘civic culture’ lacks contestation, a fourth form of political culture. Contestation in the forms of various protests, central to less open and more autocratic societies such as Russia and Kazakhstan, have strengthened in the emerging era of Web 3.0 and globalisation. Drawing from different surveys and recent political events, the present study argues that in order to study political cultures and participation in Russia and Kazakhstan, one needs to consider contestation along with the ‘civic culture’ offered by Almond and Verba.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"26 1","pages":"116 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44681547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SLAVONICAPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2021.1983970
S. Powell
{"title":"Ukraine was Born Free and is Everywhere in Chains: Zakon bozhyi and Enlightenment","authors":"S. Powell","doi":"10.1080/13617427.2021.1983970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13617427.2021.1983970","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the intellectual foundations of the Zakon bozhyi, an allegorical poem produced by the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the mid-nineteenth century. The work is most often understood as a product of Romanticism. This article argues that it is rather a product of synergistic Enlightenment and Romantic thought. It focuses on the depiction of religion in the Zakon and demonstrates that depiction’s origin in the Enlightenment. The article argues that work demonstrates a societal view of religion. Further, it demonstrates that the ecumenical stance of the Zakon is founded in the necessity for national and international stability, rather than in personal conviction. It emphasizes the importance of culturally specific forms of the Enlightenment, and shows how the Zakon is a product of a particularly East Slavic presentation of the movement.","PeriodicalId":41490,"journal":{"name":"SLAVONICA","volume":"26 1","pages":"105 - 115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47183690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}