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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 482-497, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The leading elites of the ethnonationalist movements that developed in the aftermath of World War I in Western Europe usually refused to see their nations and territories as ‘national minorities’. In their view, they were stateless nations or nationalities.
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 737-759, July 2022., 2022 Abstract Twelve historians and social scientists reflect on Miroslav Hroch's contributions to the field of nationalism studies. There are essays on his pioneering comparative historical studies of ‘small nation’ national movements and his distinction between nationalism and national movements. Other essays focus on concepts such as those of protagonist,
Elisabeth Bakke +11 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 103-127, March 2022., 2022 Abstract It has long been noticed that the Slavic superlative prefix nai‐/naj‐ comprises two components: *na + *i. The former can be identified with the preposition Sl na ‘on(to)’ which developed an intensifying meaning when used as a prefix. The origin of the second component, on the other hand, has not been determined satisfactorily so far.
Florian Wandl
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In search of the nation in Fiume: Irredentism, cultural nationalism, borderlands
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 660-676, July 2020., 2020 Abstract Irredentism is a crucial, yet understudied phenomenon of nationalism. Most scholars emphasise how irredentist thinking and practices function as a geopolitical instrument for inter‐state formation, resulting in radical nationalism. This article sheds light instead on the cultural preoccupations underlying irredentist discourses. It focusses on
Milou van Hout
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Learning language regimes: Children's representations of minority language education
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 24, Issue 2, Page 165-184, April 2020., 2020 Abstract Minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to raise the social status of migrant or autochthonous minorities. We consider how participating children experience these alternative language regimes by analysing drawings made by children in two minority education settings—a Slovene‐German bilingual ...
Judith Purkarthofer, Haley De Korne
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Acta Neophilologica, 1988 Contemporary American poetry was more or less terra incognita in Slovenia throughout the first half of the 20th century. The thesis question, then, is why are there so few translations of American poetry into Slovene in the discussed period between the ...
Igor Maver
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Translation and TS research in a culture using a language of limited diffusion: the case of Slovenia
JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2008 The article presents the seminal influence of translation on the development of Slovene language and culture. A historical overview of major translations in Slovene demonstrates the decisive influence of translation on the development of Slovene language,
Nike K. Pokorn
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Translating Culture: Contemporary African American Poetry
ELOPE, 2015 The paper interrogates cultural specifics of contemporary African American poetry and exhibits translation problems when translating this poetic work. African American writers have always included much of their cultural heritage in their writing and this
Kristina Kočan Šalamon
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Belletristic Translation into English: What Price the Same Order of Words?
ELOPE, 2005 The order of clause constituents in Slovene is largely guided by functional sentence perspective, while its English counterpart is grammar-based and much less flexible.
Nada Grošelj
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Margaret Atwood, World-Famous but Yet to Be Discovered by Many Slovene Readers
Acta Neophilologica, 2020 Margaret Atwood is the only Canadian author whose 80th birthday in 2019 was celebrated by the global academic community. This is not surprising, as she is the most famous Canadian writer, popular also outside literary circles.
Tomaž Onič +3 more
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