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Material Semiotic Narratives of Finnishness Through a Mundane Object: The Case of the Plastic Bucket

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 461-472, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how Finnishness is constructed in media texts with and through plastic buckets. By so doing, the article contributes to research on materiality and nationalism through examining the role of a mundane object instead of official national symbols.
Alma Onali
wiley   +1 more source

European Identity and the Euro in Kosovo

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 473-484, April 2026.
ABSTRACT How can nationalist leaders stand for political independence and monetary sovereignty while embracing the use of a supra‐national currency? At first sight, unilateral euroisation—the de facto adoption of the euro instead of a national currency—seems inconsistent with the goals of nationalism and independence.
Nicola Nones
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Ability, Reading Fluency and Orthographic Skills: The Case of L1 Slovene English as a Foreign Language Students

Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2012
This study examined the difference between less-skilled and skilled L1 Slovene English as foreign language (EFL) students in foreign language (L2) fluency and L2 orthographic skills; 93 less-skilled Grade 7 L1 Slovene students and 102 skilled Grade 7 L1
Florina Erbeli, Karmen Pižorn
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Contrastive analysis as a didactic tool: acquisition problems of the Spanish article in Slovene learners

Linguistica, 2014
The aim of the paper is to present a semantically based approach to the teaching of the Spanish article usage from the point of view of contrastive analysis, taking into account the role of plurilingualism and the development of  the learner’s ...
Gemma Santiago Alonso
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The Role of English in Shaping the Linguistic Landscape in Slovenia

ELOPE, 2022
The issue of visible written language used in Slovene public spaces is addressed. This is rapidly changing under the influence of English as the lingua franca of today.
Nada Šabec
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

History, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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Exploring Under‐Researched Operational Barriers Affecting Willingness to Work as Last‐Mile Crowdshippers: Evidence From Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Ukraine

Journal of Advanced Transportation, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Last‐mile crowdshipping, where individuals voluntarily transport parcels, offers solutions for urban logistics but struggles to recruit enough participants—termed ‘critical mass’—to serve as willing to work (WTW) crowdshippers. While previous studies have primarily focused on sociodemographic factors influencing WTW in Western and Southern Europe ...
Patricija Bajec, Halyna V. Pivtorak, Jaeyoung Jay Lee   +2 more
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Gender Ideologies in English and Slovene: A Contrastive View

ELOPE, 2014
The article deals with the concept of linguistic sexism in the cross-cultural context. It compares the generally accepted guidelines for avoiding linguistic sexism in English and Slovene, exemplified by two guides on non-sexist use of English.
Katja Plemenitaš
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Analyzing the Landscape of Botulinum Toxin Research: A Bibliometric Study of Publication Performance and Emerging Trends

Pain Practice, Volume 25, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Background This study aimed to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of the global scientific literature on botulinum toxin from 1991 to 2024, evaluating publication performance, citation impact, and emerging research foci. Methods Data were retrieved from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI‐EXPANDED) of the Web of Science Core ...
Yuh‐Shan Ho, Giancarlo De la Torre Canales, Nikolaos Christidis   +2 more
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Nasal vowels and diphthongs in European Portuguese: a problem for Slovene speakers

Linguistica, 2017
Portuguese, a Romance language, and Slovene, a Slavic language, are distant in the geographical, historical, cultural and linguistic senses. There are not many contrastive studies of these two languages, and even fewer in the phonetic-phonological field.
Blažka Müller Pograjc, Jasmina Markič
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